Kevin Dayton

Meanwhile, Gov. Josh Green's well-financed campaign is coasting to an easy win over his three little-known opponents in the Democratic primary.

A corrections official told the family Denise Foster died of injuries after "an incident." The Foster family says they learned Denise was attacked in her cell.

Hawaiʻi Republicans also announced Wednesday the party chose tourism executive Kelly Kitashima to run in a special election for state Senate on Nov. 3.

Water was surging in local rivers on Saturday morning as residents hunkered down. Water was surging in local rivers on Saturday morning as residents hunkered down.

The body of a Big Island woman who went missing after the storm was discovered Monday, governor says.

A second body was discovered Tuesday. Local businesses remain battered and shuttered as people from around the Big Island step up to help.

With two more storms on the way, emergency workers are rushing to prepare.

Experts say some inmates at Hālawa don't need to be in the restrictive setting of a medium-security prison, and the setting at Waiawa will be more therapeutic.

The suit alleges corrections officers at the state's largest prison gave members of a prison gang access to an inmate in protective custody, who was then beaten.

Most of the pumps that deliver water from wells stopped working when the electricity was cut off. The county lacks emergency generators to run them all.