Kapolei News

Honolulu police issued only 50 citations in the first four days of a new law banning hand-held cell phones and other electronic devices in vehicles.

The city is falling more than $80 million a year short in revenues to build its 20-mile rail system between Kapolei and Ala Moana.

A Leeward Oahu high school's policy of singling out swine flu as the only illness causing an excusable absence from summer school contradicts the state Department of Health's view that seasonal flu is just as serious as the novel H1N1 variety.

Verizon Wireless is offering free workshops to help users of wireless phones and smart phones adapt to Honolulu's new hands free law impacting cell phone use by drivers.

The booming Ewa community has crammed students into Ilima Intermediate School for years, but a new public middle school projected to open in July 2010 will bring relief.

KAPOLEI - A bevy of top state leaders clustered together in a dusty open space between the Kapolei Theaters and Zippy's Restaurant yesterday to celebrate the promise of easier driving in the hub of what sometimes is still referred to as O'ahu's Second City.

Department of Transportation officials said TheBus will expand services to accommodate commuters who use TheBoat, the citya TMs ferry system.

Learn Waltz, Samba and Cuban Rumba with the Hawaii Ballroom Dance Association in Kapolei.

The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands has been awarded a $200,000 federal grant to help clean up a site in East Kapolei that is adjacent to areas planned for development of affordable housing for native Hawaiians.

Thousands of children from the Konishiki Kids Foundation, founded by one of the world's most prestigious professional sumo wrestlers from Nanakuli, will celebrate this July 4th with live music, games and fireworks at Wet 'n' Wild Hawaii.

An executive with one of the largest architecture and planning firms worldwide said rail projects such as the one planned on Oahu will help increase business along the transit line.

Kapolei - This year's winners of the Kapolei Outstanding Achievement Awards are a diverse group.

The latest North Korean missile threat and subsequent U.S. response to protect Hawai'i prompted reactions ranging from indifference to cautious concern among Island residents.

The state Department of Transportation will hold a public informational meeting to discuss highway projects that affect the 'Ewa, Waipahu and Kunia communities at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow at Holomua Elementary School, 91-1561 Keanui Drive.

Honolulu Prosecutor Peter Carlisle and City Council Chairman Todd Apo are seriously looking at the possibility of running for Honolulu mayor if Mayor Mufi Hannemann steps down to run for governor.

The City and County of Honolulu will hold its second rail station design community workshop in Kapolei on Monday, June 29, as part of the Honolulu Rail Transit project.

Gov. Linda Lingle's plan to cut millions from Hawaii's public schools has parents and teachers worried.

'Enpitsu,' a wooden sculpture of a pencil towering more than 15 feet tall is now on display in the Courtyard of Kapolei Hale.

A 40-year-old man sought by police in an attempted murder case turned himself into the Kapolei police station about 11 p.m. last night, police said.

Police are looking for a man in his 20s who robbed a Moiliili business twice in two days after the first robbery went unreported.