Waimea News

Makawao. The 44th annual Paniolo Parade begins at 9 a.m. at the Makawao Cemetery and ends at the Eddie Tam Memorial Center.

Tent city: The farmersa market will bring you goods come rain or shine. Image: margot seeto Blaisdell Farmersa Market / You want to support local agriculture, but you claim you dona t have time to go out of town or rise early enough on the weekends to go to farmersa markets.

A public hearing on draft permit and permit application for the continued operation of the Kekaha Landfill phase two, which includes a lateral expansion, will be held on June 30 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Waimea Neighborhood Center.

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.

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.

Waimea residents are speaking in support of hosting the world's largest telescope on Mauna Kea.

Sleep just steps from the beach at Waimea Plantation Cottages on Kauai. Photo: Thomas J. Story Click to Enlarge 1. Waimea, HI WAIMEA PLANTATION COTTAGES Once you lay eyes on your cute little cottage that's been rescued from a shuttered sugarcane plantation, spruced up, and set here in a grassy coconut grove, your guidebook of Kauai's must-see ...

NA POHAKU O HAUWAHINE RESTORATION PROJECT, volunteers needed to remove alien plant invasives and replant with endemic natives and restore native wetland bird habitat; 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Saturday; for more information: www.ahahui.net, 593-0112. INTERNATIONAL SURFING DAY BEACH CLEANUP, sponsored by Surfrider's O'ahu Chapter, followed by a surf ...

KHNL News 8 and K5 News travel to the Big Island to present a special series of reports on the hazardous effects of "vog" to our island state.

Farm-fresh lettuce. Tomatoes and cucumbers straight off the vine. The Kohala Center's 'Cool Farms, Hot Lunches' learning events continue with a visit to Hamakua Springs Country Farms with owner Richard Ha from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 27.

"For me, a good day is a day like any other, when I have written one page well. Except for the hours I spend writing, life seems to me to be flawed, deficient, and senseless." - Orhan Pamuk, novelist I have been directed to relocate my excessive number of books.

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.

The Diocese of Honolulu last month launched an official Blessed Damien Canonization Web site offering the latest news on activities related to the Roman Catholic Church's plan to declare the priest a saint, the first from Hawai'i. A passionate advocate for the good of the people under his care, Damien De Veuster died in 1889 after serving Hansen's ...

Road maintenance will be conducted in Hilo, Waimea and Kona next week. Drivers should be alerted that some roads will be closed.

The Hawaii Tourism Authority and Cilantro Media have brought in a team of crack bloggers to give their take on Hawaii.

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 .

When DLNR Director Laura Thielen asked the state Legislature for $240 million in bond money to fix Hawai'i's aging state parks and harbors, she said some parks would have to close without the new money.

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

HILO - A long-awaited environmental report on the world's largest optical/infrared telescope planned for the summit of Mauna Kea says the overall public benefit of the project outweighs any "unavoidable adverse impacts." If Hawaii were selected as the preferred site, and if the state Board of Land and Natural Resources approved it, from 2011 to ...

Conservationists at Waimea Valley are celebrating the recent birth of three Alae Ula chicks.