Pahala News

After eight years of violating safe drinking water standards, the Pahala water system is now up to par, West Hawaii Today reported.

HILO, Hawai'i - In just over a year's time, the varroa mite, a parasite that kills honeybees, has spread from the Hilo Bay area north to Onomea and south to Pahala, researchers say.

Maggie Cox makes a good point. If public libraries on rural islands are to be closed to save the state some money, it's only fair that libraries on Oahu share the pain.

It comes on the Kona winds - the dreaded yellow-brown haze of vog that makes eyes burn and lungs protest.

HILO - An elderly Kau man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 days in jail for growing marijuana.

The Hawai'i Police Department is investigating several criminal property damage cases reported on July 17 around 4 p.m. Ka'u police officers responded to a report of someone throwing rocks at motorists traveling south on Highway 11 between the 50- and 51-mile markers in the area of Pahala.

Big Island police are investigating reports of four vehicles damaged by rocks thrown at them on Mamalahoa Highway.

Public library patrons are gathering petitions, writing lawmakers and e-mailing the Board of Education to try to avert the closure of five branches due to budget cuts.

The latest proposal? Closing five school libraries: Holualoa Public Library, Pahala Public and School Library, Kealakekua Public Library, Ewa Beach Public and School Library, and Hana Public and School Library.

Onouli Farm of Kona won top honors at Hawaii's first coffee-cupping competition this weekend at the Hawaii Coffee Association's 14th annual conference at Maui Tropical Plantation.

A library is a window on the world, and, especially for people living miles away from the next community, it's distressing to see that window slam shut.

State Librarian Richard Burns is proposing that the state Board of Education consider the closures.

On Sunday, June 7, a group of students from Volcano School of Arts and Sciences, Ka TMau High, and Pahala Elementary School were welcomed on a VIP visit to the Keauhou Bird Conservation Center on Hawaii.

You know how just about every neighborhood in Hawai'i has the 'rasta house'? A place where surfers put up Bob Marley pareaus in the windows, have 'One Love' stickers on their trucks and play Chaka Demus and Peter Tosh music all day and night? Friday morning, the rasta house down the street was blasting Michael Jackson from speakers in the window.

Keeping a child indoors during recess is normally reserved for students who misbehave.

Pahala Public and School Library is scheduled to close beginning Wednesday, June 10 for approximately two months for health, safety, and accessibility improvements, and the installation of a new roof.

Pilot error is being blamed for two fatal air crashes in Hawaii last year that killed four people.