HILO — Hawaii County’s rate of recycling or otherwise diverting garbage from the landfill has dropped 48% in the past decade, according to a comprehensive report released Friday by a commission that meets once a decade to evaluate solid waste practices.

KAILUA-KONA — Another delay has cropped up in the case of two Puna women accused of murder in the 2018 death of a 6-year-old boy at a Kealakehe apartment complex.

KAILUA-KONA — After a brief hiatus, the Hawaii Police Department’s Special Enforcement Unit is back to apprehending criminals in West Hawaii.

KAILUA-KONA — The mother of a 35-year-old woman stabbed to death in April at a Ka’u park did not mince words Friday at the sentencing of the woman who killed her daughter.

APIA, Samoa — An emergency medical team from Hawaii, along with Samoan volunteers and aid workers from other countries, immunized more than 20,000 residents on the first day of a mandatory vaccination campaign.

KAILUA-KONA — The first female to win the Officer of the Month in half a decade was recognized by the Kona Crime Prevention Committee for her outstanding service to the community.

HONOLULU — The U.S. Navy sailor who fatally shot two people at Pearl Harbor before killing himself was unhappy with his commanders and had been undergoing counseling, a military official said Friday.

HILO — Fear of radio wave exposure and a desire not to be around cellphone users inspired more than 50 people to send the County Council testimony opposing free Wi-Fi at county parks and facilities.

HILO — The state Board of Education on Thursday approved a proposal to address Hawaii’s continuing teacher shortage by increasing pay for classroom teachers in areas that have faced the most severe staff shortages.

PEARL HARBOR — On Dec. 7, 1941, then-21-year-old Lauren Bruner was the second-to-last man to escape the burning wreckage of the USS Arizona after a Japanese plane dropped a bomb that ignited an enormous explosion in the battleship’s ammunition storage compartment.

HILO — A court document filed by the Hawaii Police Department outlines its version of the circumstances that led to two officers discharging their weapons in a busy supermarket parking lot in Hilo the day before Thanksgiving.

KAILUA-KONA — Human trafficking is a problem that persists in every corner of the world, even in a place described as paradise.

HILO — At the end of the 19th Century, Akima Brown Akui began working for the newly founded Hilo Electric Light Company.

HONOLULU — The U.S. Navy sailor who fatally shot two people at Pearl Harbor before killing himself was unhappy with his commanders and had been undergoing counseling, a U.S. military official said Friday.