Pahala News

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.

LOOK "Prison Break" returns on Fox with a repeat at 7 p.m. and a new episode to follow.

The plantation heritage town of Pahala will celebrate its first Ka'u Coffee Festival April 24 to 26.

Nursery owner Ted Seaman proudly boasts of the hibiscus trees he once grew on the Big Island, remembering how landscapers snapped them up for their gardens.

The big wind, or "dust devil," that blew a portion of a roof off a school building on the Big Island is rare in Hawaii, according to the National Weather Service.

With coffee growing expanding in the area, the Ka'u district of Hawai'i island is launching a festival to celebrate its new industry, the Ka'u Coffee Festival, April 24-26 in Pahala.

Hawai'i Police Department Ka'u District Captain Andrew Burian Phone: 939-2520 March 2, 2009 Report No.

A bicyclist towing two toddlers in a wagon was in critical condition and the toddlers in serious condition yesterday after a car hit the bike on the North Shore, police said.

The Hawaii Department of Health launched a Web site Thursday that tracks vog levels on the Big Island.

Every one of the Big Island's 42 public schools will get a piece of the $69.5 million the Department of Education plans to spend on projects here over the next two years.

No one wants to ring in the New Year with a trip to the emergency room. But Hilo Medical Center's emergency department staff is taking extra steps to prepare for a possible influx of people with respiratory ...

The holiday season is once more upon us, with the solstice arriving at 2:04 a.m. Hawaiian Standard Time on Sunday, December 21, and Chanukah, Christmas, and Kwanza following soon afterward.

Hawaii's deteriorating public schools are in for a much-needed face lift as the state begins to pump dollars into construction projects to stimulate the economy.

People living downwind of Kilauea have a 57 percent higher risk of developing acute bronchitis than those in vog-free communities, according to a new study.