The bill would have accepted and added into the County’s budget $1 million from the state, which Puna state Rep. Greggor Ilagan was able to get allocated as a line item in the state budget in 2021, and another $500,000 from County coffers for the Hawai‘i County Department of Public Works to do the study.
A 36-year-old woman from Pāhoa suffered serious injuries following a hit-and-run collision early Friday morning on Highway 130, near Malama Street in Pāhoa.