Police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 16-year-old girl reported missing earlier this week.

HILO — A man in his 40’s appears to have drowned in the shallow tidal flats of the popular Keaukaha-area beach park on Friday evening.

In 2018, 106 American law enforcement officers gave their lives in the line of duty. Of those, 55 died as a result of felonious assault. One such officer was Hawaii Police Department’s Bronson Kaimana Kaliloa.

A fire took hold late Friday morning, around 11:33 a.m., at the Lokahi Apartment complex on Kakahiaka Street in Kailua-Kona.

A Waikoloa man suffered severe injuries following a two vehicle collision Thursday at the intersection of Waikoloa Road and Uluwehi Street, according to a release from the Hawaii Police Department.

HILO — Hawaiian Volcano Observatory staff are starting to settle in to the former Hilo Iron Works building, their third move since the Kilauea eruption displaced them from their headquarters in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.

HILO — A $66.9 million federal grant heading to the state for disaster recovery was welcomed news for Hawaii County officials.

KAILUA-KONA — A 77-year-old man died Thursday morning of an apparent drowning.

KAILUA-KONA — A Hawaiian monk seal that underwent a CT scan last month at a Waimea hospital is stable, but remains in critical condition.