The 2024 Young Women Prom Event (YWPE) announce that this year’s event will be dedicated in honor of Theresa Cachuela, a local beauty influencer who was fatally shot in front
A Nāʻālehu woman – 62-year-old Patricia Wong – has been sentenced to life in prison and a consecutive 20-year prison term for the June 2009 murder of Kaycee Smith at a residence in the Orchidland Estates subdivision. Smith had a single gunshot wound to her head. On Nov. 27, 2023, a Hilo jury found Wong […]
Hackel objected to the “unorthodoxed” way the budget amendment was approved by “piggybacking” it on an unrelated vote – approval of training and conference funds for the Department of Planning and Economic Development – at the Jan. 23 Public Services Committee meeting.