Waimalu News

Honolulu police defended three officers who fired shots at an auto-theft suspect cornered in a stolen Dodge Durango at a KFC drive-through in Waikele on Tuesday afternoon.

Across the Islands today, 170,000 public school students will be anywhere but the classrooms where they would normally be.

The National Weather Service in Honolulu issued a flood advisory for Oahu until 5:45 p.m. today.

The growing discontent of parents and the community over the recent decision to furlough teachers on 17 Fridays this school year has caught the attention of state lawmakers.

The flood advisory has been cancelled for the island of Oahu in Honolulu County.

State Sen. Norman Sakamoto today announced his campaign in the Democratic primary for lieutenant governor in 2010 outside of Palolo Elementary School, where he attended and his late mother was a teacher.

The city has launched a two-year, $45 million renovation and reconstruction project of the Waimalu sewer system near Pearl City.

The good news is that federal stimulus dollars are helping to foot a share of a major sewer line replacement project in Waimalu.

The city on Monday unveiled plans for a two-year project to replace sewer lines in Waimalu built back in the 1950s.

Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann today announced the start of a $45-million project to rehabilitate and reconstruct the sewer system in Waimalu.

The family of a missing Australian hiker returned to Oahu on the anniversary of his disappearance in the hope of discovering his whereabouts.

The city has received $7.4 million in federal stimulus money that will be used for reconstruction of the Waimalu sewer, Mayor Mufi Hannemann's office announced yesterday.

I stood outside the back porch of our Quonset-hut home and looked across the Halawa Valley, waiting.

Oahu motorists are being advised that two west-bound lanes of the H-1 Freeway will be closed for maintenance work on the ZipperLane from 12:30 to 10 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Eighteen school students were injured in two separate accidents yesterday morning, none seriously, when the buses they were in were involved in accidents.