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Bret Yager: Well Failures Leave Hawaii County Facing Water Cutbacks Bret Yager

Bret Yager: Well Failures Leave Hawaii County Facing Water Cutbacks

North Kona residents have been forced to curtail water use to essentials like cooking and drinking.

Big Island Dairy Sued Over Water Pollution Concerns Courtesy of Kupale Ookala

Big Island Dairy Sued Over Water Pollution Concerns

The complaint claims the company is violating the Clean Water Act by聽fouling ocean-bound gulches with animal waste.

Alan McNarie: A Big Island Juggler With Leukemia Faces Deportation Courtesy of Graham Ellis

Alan McNarie: A Big Island Juggler With Leukemia Faces Deportation

Graham Ellis has been teaching circus skills to island children since 1981. Now he’s being swept up by Trump’s tougher new immigration rules.

Big Island Eliminates Produce Delivery For Seniors Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2017

Big Island Eliminates Produce Delivery For Seniors

The summer deliveries were ended so that more people can receive vouchers for a smaller amount of produce.

Bret Yager: The Growing Meat Market On The Big Island Courtesy of Kona Butcher Shop

Bret Yager: The Growing Meat Market On The Big Island

Bolstered by a mobile slaughterhouse and new butcher shops, the fledgling industry is trying to keep it all local in Hawaii County.

Big Island Coffee Farmer Gets 30-Day Reprieve From Deportation AP

Big Island Coffee Farmer Gets 30-Day Reprieve From Deportation

He showed up at the Homeland Security office with his bag packed, but was allowed to return to his wife and children in Kona.

Bret Yager: This Big Island Shelter Is Killing Thousands Of Animals A Year Bret Yager/Civil Beat/2017

Bret Yager: This Big Island Shelter Is Killing Thousands Of Animals A Year

Critics including two council members wants a聽change in the contract with the organization in order to reduce the number of euthanasias.

Big Island Company Recalls More Imported Ahi Tainted With Hepatitis A Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Big Island Company Recalls More Imported Ahi Tainted With Hepatitis A

It was distributed on the mainland but not in Hawaii. Last month, another subsidiary of the company distributed tainted tuna on Oahu.

How This Hawaii Business Is Using A New Law To Raise Money Hawaii Cider Co./Wefunder

How This Hawaii Business Is Using A New Law To Raise Money

A recent change in securities law allows companies to offer stocks and bonds through Kickstarter-like websites.

Will Popular Big Island Trail Someday Get Toilets? Flikr.com/Forest and Kim Starr

Will Popular Big Island Trail Someday Get Toilets?

Big Island activists have for years unsuccessfully prodded officials to install toilets on the ancient Kaawaloa trail to the Captain Cook Monument.