Lihue News

Maui police are looking for the person or persons who set three brush fires within a 45-minute period yesterday along Honoapiilani Highway near Lahaina.

Police have reopened Kaumualici Highway in cElecele, following a fatal traffic accident tat 10:40 a.m. today.

Calgary-based WestJet Airlines announced Wednesday what it described as the largest single-season expansion in the company's history with the addition of eight new international destinations and three new U.S. destinations for the winter of 2009-2010. By late fall, the company said in a statement, the discount carrier will provide service to 66 ...

Accused swindler David E. Ruskjer paid his investors more than $5 million, and anybody who loaned him money got exactly what they were promised, his lawyer, Michael Green, said yesterday in federal court.

A man was arrested on Kauai after he unknowingly tried to sell stolen jewelry to its owner, police said.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car and its Alamo Rent A Car brand both recently expanded operations at several airports in Hawaii.

Police arrested three men Friday night on misdemeanor cruelty to animal charges in connection with an apparent cockfight in Waianae.

WAILUA - The body of a 52-year-old Lihue man was discovered at the bottom of Opaekaa Falls this morning, according to a Kauai County news release.

" Value and options - " something all discerning travelers appreciate - " are abundant on Kaua - i this summer.

I got up this morning, packed my suitcase and drove up the road from Lihue, Kauai to Hanalei, Kauai.

LIHUE - A 21-year-old Hanapepe man died Friday morning after a single-car crash on Koloa Road.

As CA readers know, Phil Jones keeps his CRU data secret. Embarrassingly, the UK Met Office relies on this secret data and says that it is unable to provide this supporting data for the most relied upon temperature data set in the world.

Two men died yesterday morning and three others were injured in a crash near the Wailua Golf Course on Kauai involving a big-rig truck, a rental car and a motorcycle.

Alpine Air, which was subcontracted to deliver U.S. mail to several of the neighbor islands, said it will lose 18 percent of the company's gross revenue after its contract was not renewed.

The Kauai Board of Realtors and the county Housing Agency are sponsoring an educational fair that will offer information for people looking to buy a home on Kauai.

LIHUE, Kauai>> Lei shop owners fear that more people are buying the Hawaiian wreaths at discount chain stores as the economy slumps.

LIHUE - Rehabilitation work on Opaekaa Bridge in Wailua Homesteads is scheduled to begin June 15.

LIHUE - Cell phone technology helped Kauai firefighters rescue a lost hunter in Kokee on Saturday.

Owners of a 10-year-old commercial fish farm want to quadruple production at their operation off Ewa Beach, where they raise moi in open-ocean cages.

Three members of the state Environmental Council have quietly resigned in recent weeks, alleging the governor ignored their work.