Moped rider dies after head-on bus crash near Kualoa Regional Park
WINDWARD OAHU, Hawaii (Island News) -- A head-on bus crash near Kualoa Regional Park on Sunday led to a man's death after he tried to do a wheelie while riding a moped. The fatal collision involving the moped rider, a 23-year-old man, occurred at about 2:50 p.m. on Aug. 3. The accident happened on Kamehameha Highway...
Judge denies former Kahuku coach TRO
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A judge denied former Kahuku Head Coach Sterling Carvalho’s request for a temporary restraining order on Aug. 1. The request for the TRO was filed as an effort to get the former coach back on the sidelines immediately. He was fired after the state Department of Education conducted an investigation...
Nā Hula Festival returns to Kapiʻolani Park for 84th annual celebration
The 84th annual Nā Hula Festival made its return to the Kapiʻolani Park bandstand on Aug. 3.
James ʻDa Bald Guyʻ Martin
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Growing up was always about family for me. Mother and father were split. I would always be with my father on the weekends. He’d pick me up from school and take me to work with him, at that time he was the executive chef at YMCA camp. But I remember at the age of 6 I was helping him cook...
Oahu Faces Extended Nighttime Closures on H-201 Moanalua Freeway Through August
Oahu drivers should brace for more nighttime travel disruptions, as the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) has announced the extension of the full closure of the westbound H-201 Moanalua Freeway. The initial plan to wrap up the work by the end of July has shifted, with closures now extending through August...
Moped rider in critical condition after crash involving bus
We all go to see movies to be entertained, but the best ones also stir our emotions, teach us something, and even make us laugh. SORRY, BABY does all of that. Actress Eva Victor wrote, directed, and starred in the film which earned her the Best Screenplay award at the Sundance Film Festival. It’s a fiction film, but...
Schools Ask Families To Spend Big On Supplies As Kids Go Back To Class
Just three days before the start of school, Relinda Nakasone picked up her children’s classroom supply list from Lunalilo Elementary and searched the emptying shelves of Fisher Hawaiʻi for erasers, markers and more. Nakasone had waited until her husband got paid to start in on the list for their two children, but the...
HPD shuts down two illegal game rooms in Kalihi, Salt Lake
Two separate illegal games rooms were searched this past week, the Honolulu Police Department said.
Lee Cataluna: The Media Doesn’t Need Police Scanners To Cover The Cops
Here’s an unpopular opinion, at least among my colleagues in the serious, glamorous, sometimes breathless but mostly earnest world of local journalism:. News organizations don’t need to listen in to police scanners. Whether they have the right to basically eavesdrop on unfiltered, live, hot-mic calls between cops on...
Back-to-school shopping shock: Rising costs worry parents
While many kids are excited about showing off new outfits and accessories this school year, parents are facing a different kind of reality: sticker shock.
