07/12/11 Primetime Football Clinic Saturday at Honokaa The Primetime Football Clinic, which features a handful of prominent Hawaii high school football coaches, will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Honokaa High School's football field.
07/07/11 Volcanic activity at Kilauea continues to feed a pair of lava lakes, one at Puu Oo crater in the east rift zone and another at the summit.
07/06/11 She was known as a matriarch, not just of a well-known local family, but of Monterey itself, dating back to the days of the real-life versions of all the Cannery Row characters made famous by John Steinbeck. Rose Segovia died July 1, a month and a half short of her 103rd birthday.
07/05/11 West Hawaii Today seeks sports writers West Hawaii Today's sports department needs correspondents to cover athletic events on the Big Island. Ideal candidates will have opportunities to write game stories on deadline, human interest pieces and in-depth previews.
07/02/11 National parks boom during the summer, but many visitors barely see them, limiting their stay to a scenic drive and a stop at the visitor center, says James Kaiser, author of the guidebook series Complete Guide to the National Parks. "At national parks, you get out of them what you put into them. Once you step off the beaten path, you get an entirely different perspective," Kaiser says.
07/02/11 Puna man gets 20-year sentence for molestation HILO -- A 53-year-old Puna man has received a 20-year prison term for molesting a minor. Third Circuit Judge Greg Nakamura sentenced John Angelo Pacheco on Friday. A jury found Pacheco guilty on March 31 of seven counts of first-degree sex assault.
06/23/11 BY CHELSEA JENSEN | WEST HAWAII TODAY Hawaii Electric Light Co. is taking the first steps toward establishing geothermal energy as a means to meet West Hawaii's electrical needs.
06/22/11 The Parrish Collection Kauai Represents The Only USA Vacation Rental Chosen.
06/21/11 Hyde, Sursely on Emily Gail show Barry Hyde and Tom Sursely are the guests for Sunday's Emily T. Gail Show, which will air at 6 p.m. on ESPN Radio (AM 790 in Kona and AM 850 in Hilo).
06/17/11 Spending three weeks on top of an active volcano wouldn't be everyone's idea of a relaxing summer vacation, but it's a dream trip for Janine Keeler.
06/15/11 A former mortuary owner convicted of stealing from a funeral trust fund eight years ago is scheduled to appear today in Hilo District Court on charges of attempted murder and robbery of a 65-year-old coin dealer.
06/09/11 Canines flock to coast of Southern California to catch the best waves.
06/09/11 Footage released by US Geological Survey shows a fresh stream of lava surging into a lava lake within Halemaumau crater on Kilauea volcano's summit.
06/09/11 It was a scene that perhaps wouldn't have made the final cut of King Kong. This lowland gorilla shares a moment of quiet reflection with a tiny mallard duckling, who seems fairly nonplussed about being in the presence of one of nature's most powerful beasts.
05/21/11 Holding period set for surfing trials The holding period for the 27th annual Quiksilver-Kamaaina Motors Big Island Pro-Am surfing trials is set for June 4-Aug. 28 at Honolii Beach Park.
05/18/11 By Dr. Janice Bishop ; Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe , SETI Institute , and Gail Jacobs Dr. Janice Bishop is a chemist and planetary scientist who explores the planet Mars using spectroscopy. Her investigations of CRISM data of Mars are revealing clays and sulfates in the ancient rocks that provide information about the geochemical environment at that time. Dr. Bishop ...
05/16/11 In Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address, he said, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
05/06/11 The nation's space agency is back on the Hawaii island this week to complete a study using radar to measure subtle changes in the landscape of Kilauea Volcano.
04/04/11 The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface. A NASA Gulfstream-III aircraft equipped with a synthetic aperture radar developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., departed on Sunday, April 3, from the Dryden Aircraft Operations Facility ...
04/04/11 The Kilauea volcano that recently erupted on the Big Island of Hawaii will be the target for a NASA study to help scientists better understand processes occurring under Earth's surface. |