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Jack in the Box Hilo gets special visit from Jack Box himself
If you work at a Jack in the Box and you get a visit from the man, the legend, the guy with the smiley face and pointy yellow hat himself, Jack Box, you know you did something right. Imagine how the employees of the Hilo location of the national fast...
Calling all Hawaiʻi actors! SAG-AFTRA workshops begin this week
August is a special time for the entertainment industry in Honolulu, as Mayor Rick Blangiardi has officially declared it "Actors Month" to recognize the vital contributions of actors to the culture and economy of the islands.
Hilo Community Rallies in Urgent Search for Endangered Missing Man Tyler Reikofski-Ekle
The search for 26-year-old Tyler Reikofski-Ekle continues as Hawaii Island police request the public's help. According to the official report on Nixle, Reikofski-Ekle, a resident of Hilo, has been missing since August 10. He was last observed near the 15-mile marker along Highway 137, Kalapana Kapoho Beach Road in Pahoa.
July was dry on the Big Island
If you haven’t noticed, it’s been pretty dry on the Big Island lately. Big Island rainfall totals for July were mostly below average, with many totals ranging from 30% to 70% of average. The Pāhoa rain gauge had its lowest July total since 2004, and area didn’t even record getting any rain last month.
The future of Army nursing: ROTC cadets/nursing students in summer training at Walter Reed
The future of Army and military nursing is training at Walter Reed this summer. “We have six iterations of Army ROTC cadets/nursing students coming through [Walter Reed] this summer for the Nurse Summer Training Program (NSTP),” said Army Col. Wendy Woodall, director for nursing and chief nursing officer at WRNMMC and the consultant to the Army Surgeon General for Medical/Surgical Nursing. “It’s such an incredible program, and myself and several other leaders here at Walter Reed completed it, [although] it’s been a while,” she added.
Women’s Equality Day: Becoming a Navy corpsman behavioral health technician
When the 19th amendment was ratified on Aug. 26, 1920, millions of women across the country won the right to vote. On Women’s Equality Day, we honor the hard-fought quest for universal suffrage and celebrate the monumental progress women have made over last century. In the lead up to...
This Hawaii-born researcher is putting robots to work to help state’s agriculture industry
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii-born researcher Kyle Yoshida believes he can help reinvigorate his home state’s agriculture industry by putting robots to work on farms and having them pick fruits and vegetables. He says it’s a formula for success. “What if we could automate some of those processes to...
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