Lihue News

Police arrested three men Friday night on misdemeanor cruelty to animal charges in connection with an apparent cockfight in Waianae.

WAILUA - The body of a 52-year-old Lihue man was discovered at the bottom of Opaekaa Falls this morning, according to a Kauai County news release.

" Value and options - " something all discerning travelers appreciate - " are abundant on Kaua - i this summer.

I got up this morning, packed my suitcase and drove up the road from Lihue, Kauai to Hanalei, Kauai.

LIHUE - A 21-year-old Hanapepe man died Friday morning after a single-car crash on Koloa Road.

As CA readers know, Phil Jones keeps his CRU data secret. Embarrassingly, the UK Met Office relies on this secret data and says that it is unable to provide this supporting data for the most relied upon temperature data set in the world.

Two men died yesterday morning and three others were injured in a crash near the Wailua Golf Course on Kauai involving a big-rig truck, a rental car and a motorcycle.

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.

The Kauai Board of Realtors and the county Housing Agency are sponsoring an educational fair that will offer information for people looking to buy a home on Kauai.

LIHUE, Kauai>> Lei shop owners fear that more people are buying the Hawaiian wreaths at discount chain stores as the economy slumps.

LIHUE - Rehabilitation work on Opaekaa Bridge in Wailua Homesteads is scheduled to begin June 15.

LIHUE - Cell phone technology helped Kauai firefighters rescue a lost hunter in Kokee on Saturday.

Owners of a 10-year-old commercial fish farm want to quadruple production at their operation off Ewa Beach, where they raise moi in open-ocean cages.

Three members of the state Environmental Council have quietly resigned in recent weeks, alleging the governor ignored their work.

Hawaiian Telcom is reducing its retail presence by closing three stores this month.

LIHUE - Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr. and a small delegation are scheduled to depart for Fukuoka and Iwaki City in Japan on Thursday.

The U.S. Secretary for Veterans Affairs, retired Gen. Eric Shinseki, helped the Walter Reed community celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month May 22 during a command observance in Heaton Pavilionis Joel Auditorium.

They met in Santa Barbara, California while in college, but they're all from Hawaii.

LIHUE, Hawaii - Poipu Beach, a favorite of both tourists and endangered Hawaiian monk seals, is eroding at a rate of about one foot a year because of storms and what a coastal geologist calls "chronic erosion." The loss of sand at the shore is so dramatic that "Dr. Beach"-a Florida professor who named Poipu the nation's top beach in 2001-might not ...

LIHUE, Hawaii - The Kauai Humane Society has taken more than 125 fighting cocks into custody after police confiscated them from a cockfight in Kapaa.