Ewa Beach News

Gov. Neil Abercrombie has released $26.8 million for capital improvement projects at Hawaii public schools statewide, including $3 million for the construction of a new gymnasium at Hilo High School that will also serve as an emergency shelter for the Big Island community.

A fire that destroyed a Papipi Drive home in Ewa Beach on Tuesday afternoon appears to have been intentionally set, Honolulu fire investigators determined.

A fire destroyed an older three-bedroom Ewa Beach house on the 91-000 block of Papipi Drive Tuesday afternoon, leaving a family of four homeless.

Witnesses tell KITV4 News that the fire appears to have started in a boat in the garage of the home.

Motorola Actv has been used for athletes and gym goers for a while now, but recently they released the Golf Edition.

Gavin Kazuhiro Aoki was born June 18 at Overlake Hospital Medical Center in Bellevue, Wash., to Kristi Leigh Aoki and Cullan Keiji Aoki of Issaquah, Wash., both formerly of Oahu.

For more than a decade, HONOLULU Magazine has critically examined public education in Hawaii.

A 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck off Aisen, Chile at about 4 p.m. Hawaii time today, but did not generate a Pacific-wide tsunami, officials said.

Hoakalei Country Club is a private, members only club in Ewa Beach on Oahu, Hawaii.

Amante Q. Aurelio May 4, 2012 Amante Q. "Mante" Aurelio, 58, of Hilo, a Papaya Processing Co.

About 36 customers are without water in Ewa Beach after a 12-inch water main broke at about 12:40 a.m., the Board of Water Supply said this morning.

The parent company of The Queen's Medical Center is exploring the possibility of buying and reopening Hawaii Medical Center West, the hospital in Ewa Beach that closed last year after declaring bankruptcy.

An Ewa Beach woman is a finalist in a contest on "The Dr. Oz" show which airs weekdays on KITV4 at 4 p.m. You can help her to win the "Transformation Nation Million Dollar You" by voting here.A Voting ends Sunday, May 13.

Jon McKenna , a former development project manager with Haseko Development Inc., has been named CEO of the Honolulu-based property management firm Certified Hawaii.

Declan Kase Anderson was born March 7 at the Queen's Medical Center to Nicole Anderson and Jesse Anderson of Ewa Beach.

Donald D. Anfinson April 5, 2012 Donald D. Anfinson, 73, of Aiea, a Navy retiree, died in Honolulu.

An Ewa Beach man was arrested after hitting a bicyclist in Waikiki and then leaving the scene of the incident early this morning, police said.

CrimeStoppers and the Honolulu Police Department are seeking the public's assistance in locating a man who tried to force a 19-year-old woman into his truck earlier this month in Ewa Beach.