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Kilauea eruption victims who were ruled ineligible have been asked to return federal disaster relief payments. Read more
The Kilauea eruption last year spared the boat ramp, but lava flows blocked it off with what is now a new, 200-foot-wide black-sand beach. Read more
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Dangerous volcanic activity at Kilauea Volcano and the subsequent closure of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park for more than four months last year contributed to a dropoff of nearly $100 million in visitor-related economic benefit from 2017, according to a new National Park Service report. Read more
Staff members from the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory are settling into another temporary office in Hilo, their third move since the Kilauea Volcano eruption forced the evacuation of their headquarters in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. Read more
The controversial geothermal power plant in Pohoiki must hold a public hearing and win the approval of the state Public Utilities Commission before it can rebuild transmission lines that were wiped out by last year’s Kilauea eruption. Read more
The aid is expected to help the state and local governments rebuild affected communities, particularly in low to moderate income regions. Read more
Hundreds of millions of dollars in state and federal funding have been committed to help Lower Puna recover from last year’s devastating Kilauea Volcano eruption. Read more
It has been one year since lava first erupted in Lower Puna, and Susie Osborne is finally able to sleep through the night. Read more
Beverly Tuaolo is harvesting pretty flowers again in Opihikao. Read more
The man climbed over a railing at the Steaming Bluff overlook to get closer to the cliff edge then lost his footing and fell. Read more
The landscape of Lower Puna was transformed by last year’s Kilauea Volcano eruption in the lower East Rift Zone, which covered more than 13 square miles of residential, farm, industrial and natural lands in lava. Read more
Hot lava can be quite viscous, and so is Hawaii island’s tourism recovery a year after worldwide images of Kilauea’s volcanic eruption began deterring vacationers. Read more
When a magnitude-5.2 earthquake shook Kailua-Kona earlier this month, Kathy Urso frantically screamed while standing in the middle of the produce section at Costco. Read more
Sulphurous fumes still rise from a 500-foot-long, 10-foot-wide crack that runs through the backyard and beneath Noah Friend and Shantel Pacarro’s house in Leilani Estates. Read more
A year after lava from Kilauea Volcano began shooting out of the ground on May 3, Pahoa town still needs any help it can get. Read more
Since the 2018 Kilauea Volcano eruption, Victor Hoapili has flown twice by helicopter to the kipuka where his Leilani Estates home still stands amid hundreds of acres of cooling lava. Read more
A slow, quiet recovery from Kilauea’s devastation in 2018 is underway, but sadness lingers over property losses, a battered economy and shattered community connections. Read more
The eruption in Kilauea’s lower East Rift Zone turned Halekamahina and neighboring subdivisions in Lower Puna on the Big Island into a kipuka, or area surrounded by lava, cut off from any roads. Read more
Some have voiced concerns about the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory potentially moving off of the Big Island to Oahu. Read more
The Senate gave final approval Friday to a $60 million aid package for Hawaii County to help the island from the Kilauea lava flow that destroyed more than 700 homes last year and a tropical storm in August that caused serious flooding. Read more
