Waimea News

Still frantically searching for a fun, educational summer camp for your school age children? The Parker School Summer Camp, in Waimea, may be able to save the day.

Not every student sails through school on the right path with straight A's and a history of inspiring teachers to help them.

Rare treasures and one-of-a-kind pleasures will be on the auction block at the Fifth Annual Mala'ai School Garden "Art & Sol" Benefit from 1 to 3:30 p.m., June 10, at Merriman's Restaurant in Waimea.

WAIMEA >> A major hydropower project on Hawaii island will not be going ahead, despite Gov.

When the Anuenue Quilters of North Kohala group wanted to give back to Anna Ranch Heritage Center in Waimea for their hospitality, they chose the perfect gift - a quilt designed and sewn by all its members.

Waimea Country School fourth, fifth and sixth grade students pose for a photo with teachers Laurel Matsuda, back left, and Nanci Mahoney, back right, and food pantry coordinator Ann Lum, back right, on May 15, their final day of volunteering for the year at the Annunciation emergency food pantry.

Jesse Tarnas, a senior at Parker School in Waimea, has been awarded one of more than 600 National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarships for 2012-2013. The NSLI-Y program is funded by the U.S. Department of State and provides merit-based scholarships for eligible high school students to learn less-commonly taught languages in summer ... (more)

Honokaa High School graduates were remembered at a candlelight vigil at the school Thursday night after the teens were killed in a car crash on Sunday.

Property owners in just two West Hawaii County Council districts - North Kona's District 8 and Kohala's District 9 - pay more than half the property taxes that will be collected from the entire county this coming fiscal year, according to a West Hawaii Today analysis of the property assessments used to determine the coming year's budget.

North Hawaii Hospice will be offering its Spring Volunteer Training in Waimea at Tutu's House, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., on May 26 and June 2. The training is both days and will offer an overview of North Hawaii Hospice and the services it provides to the community, including patient care, advance care directives, grief and bereavement support, ... (more)

SPECIAL TO NHN Two containers of water show water prior to purification, which has a reddish hue, to purified water, suitable for drinking.

This performance documentary provides an insider's peek into the unparalleled talent and camaraderie of the Waimea 'Ukulele and Slack Key Guitar Institute, held annually in the quaint cowboy town of Waimea on Hawai'i Island.

Big Island police identified the two men who died Sunday from injuries they received in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Queen Kaahumanu Highway and Kawaihae Road in South Kohala.

Cezar Corpuz Agustin April 29, 2012 Cezar Corpuz Agustin, 76, of Honokaa, Hawaii, a vegetable farm worker in Waimea, Hawaii, died in North Hawaii Community Hospital.