Kamuela News

Renovation of the earthquake-damaged Mauna Kea Beach Hotel won the third annual People's Choice Award as part of the 51st annual design awards competition by the American Institute of Architects Honolulu Chapter.

If you want to spend less than $200 a night and prefer small inns to big resorts, try Waimea Gardens Cottage in the northern town of Waimea, aka Kamuela, or the Kilauea Lodge in the park-adjacent southern village of Volcano.

Alpine Air, which was subcontracted to deliver U.S. mail to several of the neighbor islands, said it will lose 18 percent of the company's gross revenue after its contract was not renewed.

Artists of different generations combine their skills to create a unique film illustrating the arrival of the first Hawaiians By Burl Burlingame POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jun 07, 2009 Herb Kawainui Kane is an artist of the old school.

If you're hoping to spend less than US$200 a night on Hawaii's Big Island and prefer small inns to big resorts, two likely prospects are Waimea Garden Cottage and the Kilauea Lodge .

Hawai'i Police Department Criminal Investigations Division Captain Randall Medeiros Phone: 961-2251 May 26, 2009 In response to recent spikes in crimes associated with drug use and distribution in Puna, Big Island police have focused their attention on several geographic areas and groups of individuals preying on law-abiding members of our ...

Hawai'i Police Department Traffic Enforcement Unit Sergeant Christopher D. Gali Phone: 961-2332 May 5, 2009 Report No.

Big Island police have identified Peter Gusman, 70, of a Kamuela address, as the man who died after being involved in a a one-vehicle crash Saturday on Kawaihae Road in the area of the 58-mile marker.

Holunape has come a long way since the trio -- Kama Hopkins, Kekoa Kaluhiwa and Kanai'a Nakamura -- evolved out of a promising but short-lived quartet.

The Army has identified the 21-year-old soldier who was critically injured after he was hit by a car early Thursday as Pfc.

Hawai'i Police Department Traffic Enforcement Unit Christopher D. Gali Phone: 961-2332 April 24, 2009 Report No.

Two veteran kumu hula participants of the Merrie Monarch festival came up on top at an especially memorable competition that wrapped up Saturday night at Hilo's Edith Kanakaole Stadium.

HILO>> Audience expectations were high with the debut of Keali'i Reichel's hula Halau Ke'alaokamaile's at this year's 46th annual Merrie Monarch, and right out of the gate, his Miss Aloha Hula contestant, 25-year-old Cherissa Henoheanapuaikawaokele Kane, won the crown, as well as winning the Hawaiian Language Award.

This year has been declared the International Year of Astronomy. I am an amateur astronomer and I hope the Big Island of Hawaii will continue to be the world's premier center for astronomy research.

Calculating the planet candidate's mass is important because it tells astronomers whether a planet or another star is eclipsing the parent star.

The March issue of Sunset magazine highlights two Hawaii towns as among the editors' favorites.

Captain Richard Miyamoto says Morris had been free diving with friends Monday from a boat about 200 yards off Lapakahi State Historical Park in North Kohala.

A 23-year-old Kamuela man apparently drowned yesterday while skin diving near Lapakahi State Historical Park in North Kohala.

It's a sound like no other -- to Western ears, like a sound from another world. But for world-music enthusiasts, those wonderful, contrasting drones of high-pitched, resonant whistling and guttural-sounding ...

"Ma ka hana ka ike -- through doing one learns" is the guiding principle for the more than 50 school gardening programs happening on Hawaii Island.