Kailua News

Malika: We're a day early, but Happy Independence Day!! Byron: Mmmm ... Hot dogs, hamburgers, barbecue ... And most importantly explosive fireworks! Malika: Byron, be careful, we don't want you catching on fire.

Police issued more than three dozen citations on the first day of Oahu's ban on the use of hand-held cell phones while driving.

On the set of "Truth or Dare," which on this night is shooting at the Aikahi gas station in Kailua, a patron eases up to the pump and assesses the camera, lights, makeup applied from the back of a car and actors rotating through the gas station restroom to change into their costumes.

This Aug. 12, 2008 file photo shows then Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. sits on Kailua Beach in Kailua, Hawaii, with his daughter, Sasha, 7. Among Weeks and her friends, President Barack Obama's name has become shorthand for a Black man with integrity, character and spirituality, one who loves and values his wife and ...

With contributions from $1 to $15,000, Kailua rallied to keep a 61-year-old tradition burning bright -- the Kailua Fourth of July fireworks show.

So You Think You Can Dance will be eliminating two more contestants this week and Kailua's Kupono Aweau is hoping voters will keep him safe through another round.

Proof that quality can overcome quantity, the Waikiki Beach Boys scored a stunning victory in the Na 'Ohana O Na Hui Wa'a organization yesterday.

The Medical Examiner's Office has been unable to determine the cause and manner of death of Gail Yoshida, who was missing in May after going hiking on a Pearl City trail.

A Kailua Fourth of July tradition since 1948 will not die this year thanks to the efforts of volunteers, residents and businesses.

In this Aug. 12, 2008 file photo, then Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. walks down Kailua Beach in Kailua, Hawaii, with his daughters Malia, 10, left, and Sasha, 7, during their vacation in Hawaii.

The 54-year-old Honolulu woman who was fatally struck June 8 by a small Roberts Hawaii tour bus was identified yesterday by the Medical Examiner's Office as Phoebe Fe Gagarin.

They are Lanikai Beach, near Kailua, Hawaii; Bahia Honda State Park in Florida; Bahia Sucia on the southwest coast of Puerto Rico along Highway 301; Indian Beach, on Oregon's Pacific Coast; Ocracoke Island, on North Carolina's Outer Banks; Cape Cod's Bound Brook Island in Massachusetts; Montana de Oro State Park in California's San Luis Obispo ...

Calling her a flight risk and a danger to the community, prosecutors on Wednesday fought to keep a suspected identity thief locked up.

A woman living in Lanihuli Elderly Apartments at 25 Aulike St., Kailua, escaped a fire in her apartment this morning after resting an ironing board against her stove and leaving the unit to get something from her car.

KAILUA - There weren't a lot of wins, but everybody's contributions made a huge difference.

KAILUA - Paddling on its home course, Kailua Canoe Club won today's King Kamehameha Regatta to end Lanikai's run of 15 straight O'ahu Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association wins that started in late 2006.

A group of stunned citizens has put up a website savekailuafireworks.com to ask the public's kokua in continuing the 60+ year-old tradition of Kailua Beach this July 4th.

Kailua firefighters this morning extinguished a fire at the Lani Huli Elderly Apartments on Aulike Street in Kailua.

Now, a group of area residents are stepping up to try to save it. They have two things going against them- Time and money.

Some Hawaii public schools are aggressively competing for students in the geographic exception program to help gain funding.