Kunia News

Summer nights, paper lanterns, drummers, dancers, food! Honolulu's bon dance season kicks off tonight with the big one beneath the looming white stupas of Honpa Hongwanji on Pali Highway, a two-night fest that draws more than 1,000 people a night.

State Department of Transportation officials received an earful of feedback during a recent public informational meeting for regional project updates affecting Ewa, Waipahu and Kunia.

The state Department of Transportation will hold a public informational meeting to discuss highway projects that affect the 'Ewa, Waipahu and Kunia communities at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Holomua Elementary School, 91-1561 Keanui Drive.

On Friday May 15, 2009 American Box Car Racing International held its 3rd Annual ABCRI Box Car School Challenge at the ABCRI Box Car Track in Kunia.

Safety improvements are welcome at Oahu's Sandy Beach Park, where ocean rescues have doubled since 2004, reaching 472 last year.

The city is touting the efficiency of the nation's first all-online election system as incentive for O'ahu voters to take part in this year's Neighborhood Board elections.

For six out of seven years now, a Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard apprentice has delivered the student address at the Honolulu Community College annual commencement.

A 51-year-old Waipahu man who was killed Sunday when his tractor-trailer flipped over was speeding and not wearing his seat belt, police said.

Yesterday was a deadly day on Oahu as two men died and several others were hurt in four separate accidents.

Fifth-grader Maribeth Ganiron said learning geography by walking on a giant map on the classroom floor was "better than reading a book." "We get to do more than just look at it.

In its ongoing effort to increase the number of possible donors in Hawaii, the Hawaii Bone Marrow Donor Registry will be holding drives at the various Starbucks locations around Oahu in May.

Some years ago I belonged to a golf club that went by the suave and debonair name of "The Happy Hookers." The worst golfer in the club - if not on the island of O'ahu and possibly on the entire planet - was former Honolulu Advertiser writer Mike Keller, whose handicap was his mistaken belief that he knew how to play golf.

It took Edgardo Pascual of Kunia only a few days to find work after he was laid off from his job at Weyerhaeuser Paper Co.

The Clean Water and Natural Lands fund comes from a portion of property taxes and is reserved for buying land or easements for conservation purposes.

The Village Park Community Association will hold its annual Easter Egg Hunt and Mini Fair from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow at the Royal Kunia/Village Park Park-n-Ride. The event coincides with a Food Bank food drive from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Anyone bringing nonperishable food items will be able to enjoy keiki rides, a bouncer, free shave ice and ...

With apologies to James Carville, it's the gas prices, stupid. At least that's how it seems to Cutter Ford sales representative Oben Vranesevic, who has watched with mild amusement these past few months as Hawai'i car buyers have ebbed and flowed, warmed and cooled in their efforts to weigh dream ride with practical investment.

You know how they bring you a glass of water for free at most restaurants? This week -- World Water Week, today through Saturday -- several restaurants will be asking for a donation of at least $1 for that water, to raise funds for UNICEF's nationwide Tap Project.

In fact, there are restaurants from one end all the way down to the other. And we've come to one of the best.

There is a good possibility of more rain for Ocahu tomorrow, but things should clear up later next week.

The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for Oahu through 10:30 a.m. today.