Nanakuli News

Imagine Johnny Depp teaching kickboxing while fighting a triceratops. That's the future of after-school fitness for kids at Nanaikapono Elementary.

The city's permit application to expand and extend the life of Waimanalo Gulch landfill should be denied because officials only performed a partial environmental study of its impact, state Sen.

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

State Senate President Colleen Hanabusa has urged Gov. Linda Lingle to consider alternatives to her furlough plans, including a 5 percent across-the-board pay cut for state workers or one furlough day a month for the next two years, instead of three days.

City crews are to conduct a four-day cleanup in Nanakuli at an area known as Depots Beach.

The city has disqualified the low bidder in its plan to ship garbage to the mainland after the company spent $10 million building a facility on Oahu.

Tomorrow, city crews will begin a four-day cleanup along a stretch on the Wai'anae Coast known as Depots Beach in Nanakuli.

Thousands of children from the Konishiki Kids Foundation, founded by one of the world's most prestigious professional sumo wrestlers from Nanakuli, will celebrate this July 4th with live music, games and fireworks at Wet 'n' Wild Hawaii.

The Hawaii high school students quarantined in South Korea come from all over the state.

NANAKULI - A woman accused of killing a squawking peacock with a baseball bat at the Makaha Valley Towers on May 17 demanded a jury trial yesterday at her arraignment in Wai'anae District Court.

Three fires - one of which left seven people homeless - kept Honolulu firefighters busy Friday night and yesterday.

Twenty-seven schools statewide will be holding Keiki Steps to Kindergarten, a program to help young children adjust to the kindergarten setting.

Walter Stevens, the priest at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Wahiawa, said his congregation has an eagerness to help people in need.

Hawaii drivers soon will be paying the highest taxes on gas in the country, about 62 cents a gallon.

If he formally announces a campaign at some later point, he will meet U.S. Rep. Neil Abercrombie in the Democratic primary next year.

The controversy over Grace Pacific Corp.'s quarry expansion continues, as nearby Kapolei residents complained at a public hearing yesterday afternoon of continuing dust and noise.

An Oahu grand jury indicted a 37-year-old Chinatown man yesterday on charges he poured and ignited a flammable liquid on an apartment doorstep in a downtown high-rise June 2, injuring a family of four.

Reynolds Recycling will open certified redemption centers in Temple Valley and Nanakuli on June 16, the company said today.

Firefighters from the Nanakuli station have been sent to extinguish a brushfire reported at 89-778 Haleakala Ave.

Gov. Linda Lingle said yesterday she would order state workers to take three days a month in furloughs for the next two years and would scale back state healthcare benefits for low-income adults to close what she described as a $730 million budget deficit.