Honokaa News

A 22-year-old Honokaa woman died Wednesday from injuries suffered in a two-vehicle crash on Hawaii Belt Road in Hamakua.

A 22-year-old Honokaca woman died of injuries she sustained in a two-vehicle crash this morning on Hawaici Belt Road, 300 feet west of the 52-mile marker in the Hamakua District.

A 17-year-old boy died today after he fell 80 to 90 feet down Mamaewa Gulch in South Kohala on the Big Island.

Princess Cruises has added a new Family Fun cruise tour to Alaska. The 12-night tour offers the best of Alaska by land and sea and includes opportunities to travel on a jetboat, pan for gold, take an interactive tour of Denali National Park, and experience Alaska in the winter when it's many degrees below zero.

On the Big Island, a crash shut down Mamalahoa Highway for several hours Sunday between Honokaa and Waimea.

Ita s the local music, the Hawaiian luaus, and the smell and taste of Hawaiian food that keeps many coming back for more vacations.

Two Big Island separate events will be broadcast via streaming video on the worldwide web in joint Peace Day music cooperative concerts happening around the world.

The ratification vote for the 13,000 Hawaii public school teachers will take place Tuesday afternoon around the state.

A Hawaii County grand jury indicted a Kailua-Kona man Wednesday on numerous statutory rape and child pornography charges.

The Waimea Solid Waste Transfer Station is scheduled to be closed for paving on Sept.

Councilman Dominic Yagong of Hamakua lost his campaign to have the Hawaii County Council give up the 22.4 percent pay raise the salary commission granted the Council a year ago.

Sean Maekawa, Hawaii's last remaining golfer, was eliminated in today's round of 16 at the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship at Norman, Okla.

Honokaa graduate Sean Maekawa won his first match-play contest today but former Hawaii golfer Ryan Perez did not at the U.S. Public Links Championship in Norman, Okla.

"Agritourism," a hybrid of agriculture and tourism, is the state's newest travel trend.

HILO - A 20-year-old Laupahoehoe woman accused of possessing more than a pound of crystal methamphetamine pleaded not guilty yesterday and has been ordered to stand trial Oct.

More than 400 Big Island Hawaii Army National Guard and Pacific Army Reserve soldiers will be moving into new $46.5 million facilities near Hilo Airport in January 2011.

Some Pahoa residents aren't happy about a proposed new mall. Image: Alan Mcnarie It's already happened to thousands of small towns across the country: A highway bypass is built around a town, ostensibly to speed up traffic.

Firefighters pulled a 31-year-old man from a private swimming pool in Manoa yesterday evening.

HILO - A long-awaited environmental report on the world's largest optical/infrared telescope planned for the summit of Mauna Kea says the overall public benefit of the project outweighs any "unavoidable adverse impacts." If Hawaii were selected as the preferred site, and if the state Board of Land and Natural Resources approved it, from 2011 to ...

Kenneth K. Otagaki, , 91, was born July 2, 1917 and died March 26. He was a self-made man, a student, a farm manager, a soldier during World War II, a college professor of animal science, the chairman of the Hawaii Board of Agriculture and a father who deeply loved his family.