Kalaheo News

Sports camps for children ages 6 through 12 will be held July 6-10 at two locations.

Twenty-one student-athletes and 10 high schools were honored for achievements in athletics, academics, sportsmanship and community service at yesterday's HMSA Kaimana Awards & Scholarship Program luncheon at the Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio.

Dane McArthur: The speedster from Kalaheo gave up a track scholarship at Washington State because he was not allowed to play football.

Waialua softball pitcher Marissa Keao and coach/father Jay Keao repeated with top postseason honors in the OIA White Conference, but this time it follows an even sweeter reward: The school's first softball championship.

KOLOA - A Kalaheo man died last night in a single-car traffic crash on Kaumuali'i Highway just west of Halfway Bridge.

A Kauai man died late Thursday night after his sport utility vehicle burst into flames after crashing into a tree along Kaumualii Highway.

Kauai police arrested a Kapaa man Friday morning after they said he tried to rob a yoga studio with a machete.

A 42-year-old man died Thursday night in a fiery single-car crash on Kauai. The crash happened on Kaumualii Highway just west of Halfway Bridge at about 11:37 p.m. The Kalaheo man was driving westbound in a sport utility vehicle when it slammed into a tree on the side of the highway and burst into flames.

From the mountains to the ocean, from the windward to the leeward side, Kalaheo-born sky pilot and land surveyor Roger Caires has seen it all - seen it and is trying to save it.

Lihue-based Unlimited Construction Services Inc. took three first place awards for Kauai projects in the statewide General Contractors Association Build Hawaii 2009 awards and the Kukulu Hale awards.

The Kaua'i Academy of Creative Arts is accepting students for its summer arts classes to be held June 15 through July 10 at Island School.

A teenage boy was critically injured yesterday in a moped accident in Kailua. Police said an orange moped driven by a 16-year-old Kailua boy was traveling north on North Kalaheo Avenue when it rear-ended a Subaru sedan that had slowed for traffic ahead near the intersection with Uilama Street.

Registration for the county's Summer Enrichment Program, a five-and-a-half week program for children ages 5-11 in which they will learn about several countries, will take place Monday and Tuesday, May 18 and 19 at neighborhood centers around the island.

In the tropics, coffee is a serious subject. You might be thinking, "It is pretty serious around my house come 7am." But us lucky mainlanders get to press a button and have that black gold percolated in minutes, rarely do we consider where those beans come from and how they get from the plant to cup.

HANAPEPE - Quick action by neighbors yesterday helped confine a fire at a Hanapepe Heights home.

Paige and Jeremy Inman farm on a West Side leasehold of 8.5 acres in Kalaheo that lay fallow for 40 years and now is poppin' organic with tomatoes, mixed gourmet salad greens, beets, pole beans, curly kale - you name it.

Two Kaua'i construction projects each won first place in the statewide 2009 General Contractors Association Build Hawai'i Awards.

Want to own a little piece of paradise in South Kalaheo down the road from where President Obama and family sought refuge on Oahu in the months before victory? Las Vegas club owner Andrew Sasson has listed his newly completed luxurious $21 million estate in Kailua Beach with the Hawaii-based high-end real estate firm Mary Worrall Associates ...

A 23-year-old motorcyclist from Kauai was airlifted to the Queen's Medical Center last night after sustaining serious injuries in a traffic accident in Kalaheo, Kauai police said today.

A 3-year-old Kaua'i girl was in stable condition at The Queen's Medical Center yesterday, two days after being hit by a pickup truck in the driveway of her home in Kalaheo.