Waipahu News

The company that employed a 23-year-old Waipahu man, killed after an oil tank exploded Tuesday at Campbell Industrial Park, was contracted to weld rails onto a waste-oil tank, said Ryan Markham, spokesman for ...

Some local welders are worried that tough economic times could fuel more accidents like the one that happened at Campbell Industrial Park on Tuesday.

This Halloween, check out Hawaiis biggest Halloween event, the Haunted Plantation at Hawaii's Plantation Village in Waipahu.

The Honolulu Medical Examiner's Office on Wednesday released the identity of the worker killed in an explosion at a Campbell Industrial Park business Tuesday.

A woman who lost her arm in a traffic accident last year blamed herself for the wreck in court testimony yesterday, saying she was driving drunk, speeding and punching her husband on the arm and chest just ...

Dixon's Taekwondo Club will hold a benefit car wash from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Waipahu Chevron across from the Filipino Community Center.

A homeless man was charged yesterday with first-degree attempted murder for allegedly stabbing a police officer early Wednesday at the Koko Head end of Waikiki Beach.

The Na Paani Softball Club, one of the largest fastpitch softball clubs in the state, is looking for players for the 2009 season.

The Storm Water Quality Branch of the City's Department of Environmental Services conducts the fifth Waipahu Make-A-Difference Day/Adopt-A-Stream cleanup Saturday, Oct.

The Storm Water Quality Branch of the City's Department of Environmental Services conducts the fifth Waipahu Make-A-Difference Day/Adopt-A-Stream cleanup Saturday from 8:30-11 a.m The goals of the program are ...

The men were caught in a July raid on a Waipahu apartment complex. They still face prison time and deportation for using false identify papers to work as farm laborers for The Farms Inc.

The Hawai'i Technology Academy, a new public charter school in Hawai'i, will celebrate the grand opening of its learning center in Waipahu tomorrow.

Auditions for the Brown Bags to Stardom show will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Waipahu Festival Marketplace.

Police, firefighters and paramedics have been sent to an area fronting August Ahrens Elementary School, at 94-1170 Waipahu St.

Crime Watch is compiled each week by West Oahu People staff members. Highlights are taken from reports submitted by the Kapolei and Pearl City police stations.

The left and center lanes of H-1 Freeway eastbound from the Waipahu Street Overpass to the 'Aiea Heights Drive Overpass will be shut down nightly through Friday morning from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. nightly.

A kupuna fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at the Waipahu Festival Marketplace.

State Sen. Ron Menor, D-17th was knocked out of his job by city official Michelle Kidani, while Sen.

Several state legislators have called for the removal of Hawai'i Tourism Authority CEO Rex Johnson, joining Gov.

Prosecutors yesterday accused a South Carolina man of allegedly beating another man unconscious at a Waikiki hotel before kidnapping and raping his 10-year-old daughter early Wednesday.