07/03/11 OAHU TEAM CLOSES IN ON STATE TITLE BY JOE FERRARO | WEST HAWAII TODAY Cranci Kamaka and Raina McKean did the heavy lifting for Makakilo-Kapolei-Honokai Hale Little League Saturday at Captain Cook's Greenwell Park. Teammates Alecia Kupihea and Mahina Piilani made sure the work Kamaka and McKean put in wasn't wasted.
06/30/11 Editor's note: This log of driving under the influence convictions is a regular feature of West Hawaii Today and is compiled using Hawaii District Court and Hawaii County Police Department records. c Philip S. Freed, 58, of Kailua-Kona, pleaded guilty May 9 to driving under the influence of drugs. He was sentenced June 13 to pay $587 in fines and fees, referred to a driver's education course ...
06/28/11 BY ERIN MILLER | WEST HAWAII TODAY The state Department of Accounting and General Services last week issued a finding of no significant impact for its own proposed new Kona baseyard. The planned baseyard is to be built on a 1-acre site on Highway 11, just south of Haawina Street. The property was once the playing field for Keauhou Uka school in Holualoa. The department now uses a baseyard in ...
06/28/11 By Gerard Ryle This story was first published in The Canberra Times. On December 11, 2009, a former Soviet air force transport plane flying...
06/23/11 The Sandusky Bay Barge Party is back this summer and ready to provide boaters with an incredibly entertaining day on the bay, complete with bikinis, beverages and live music. This year, the Lounge Lizards will kick off the season at 1 p.m. on June 25, and of course, the bikini contest is back by popular demand. read more By date (default)
06/16/11 Indian Navy abandons escort of freed vessel New Delhi, June 16 : The Indian Navy Thursday abandoned its effort to escort Egyptian cargo ship freed Tuesday by Somali pirates to Oman after the vessel's Pakistani captain failed to respond to its efforts to establish contact, a statement said.
06/14/11 CAPTAIN COOK (HawaiiNewsNow) - Big Island police have located a vehicle involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash that occurred on June 10 thank to tips from the public.
06/11/11 Big Island police are looking for a driver suspected of killing a man in a hit-and-run crash Friday.
06/11/11 CAPTAIN COOK, Hawaii Island (HawaiiNewsNow) - Police are looking for witnesses in a hit-and-run crash that killed a man in South Kona Friday night.
06/10/11 p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; } Hilo means "braided," among other definitions, and it's...
06/10/11 When it all becomes too much and we're ready to escape the everyday world, one refuge that usually pops into mind is a South Seas island paradise. It's an image of blue lagoons, glistening beaches, friendly people and weather even nicer than San Diego's. But how did we originally get the notion that the islands of the Pacific were a gentle paradise, ready to welcome the weary of the Western ...
06/09/11 Portland chef Naomi Pomeroy is among the contestants for this year's edition of the "Top Chef" spin-off. Grant Butler checks in each week on how she's doing in the reality cooking competition, which continues with a Quickfire Challenge where the chefs have to blindly guide someone through plating a dish, followed by an Elimination round where they cook for military men and women returning home ...
05/30/11 On this Memorial Day, take a moment to remember these servicemen who have lost their lives in combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. They are infantrymen, helicopter pilots, tankers and Green Berets. They are sons and daughters, husbands and wives. They come from Colville, Coeur d'Alene, Washtucna, Pullman and Spokane. These are the stories of the sons and daughters of the Inland Northwest who have ...
05/26/11 Relive the action as England opened their summer with a clash against Sri Lanka at the SWALEC Stadium in Cardiff. Rain halted the start of play on day one but by the close of play the tourists had moved on to 133-2.
05/22/11 On the theatrically beautiful Aeolian Islands, Dugald Jellie traces stories of migration and a steamy Hollywood affair.
05/21/11 Captain Cook, Master of the Seas by Frank McLynn Yale University Press, 544pp, ?25
05/20/11 On the theatrically beautiful Aeolian Islands, Dugald Jellie traces stories of migration and a steamy Hollywood affair.
05/18/11 A resource list of plantations open to visitors, plus a festival and a living history site. As a group of visitors from the San Francisco Bay Area toured the Kona Pacific Farmers Cooperative's coffee plantation ([808] 328-2411, http://www.kpfc.com ) in Captain Cook on the Big Island, they listened intently as their guide told them what it takes for the beans to make it ...
05/17/11 CAPTAIN COOK: MASTER OF THE SEAS By Frank McLynn Yale University Press, $35, 480 pages, illustrated These are hard times for the reputations of great explorers. Columbus is charged with introducing diseases to the Caribbean that effectively depopulated some islands. The westward movement of European settlers in America is held ...
05/14/11 He has been known variously as Professor Geoffrey Taylor, Sir Geoffrey and Lord Stubbington. This is the Gold Coast businessman who established shell companies that have since been linked to arms deals, Mexican drug lords and Russia's largest tax fraud. And yet he has committed no crime. Gerard Ryle reports. | 
