Pālamanui Donates $9.68 Million to Help Fund First Phase of HCC’s Pālamanui Campus

This morning Mayor Kenoi posted on facebook that he was at “… the West Hawai‘i Civic Center for an announcement about Hawai‘i Community College’s upcoming Pālamanui Campus in Kona.” Well the announcement has been made: Mayor Kenoi, UH Board of Regents Vice Chair James Lee, and UH President M.R.C. Greenwood accepted a check for $9.68 [...]

Big Island Police Reclassify Investigation of Eden Roc Body to Murder Investigation – Identify Victim

Big Island police have reclassified the investigation of body a found Saturday in the Eden Roc subdivision from a coroner’s inquest to a murder. An autopsy conducted Tuesday morning (January 31) determined that the victim died from a combination of ligature strangulation and a brain injury from a gunshot wound. The victim has been identified [...]

Pacific Aviation Museum is Seeking Volunteers for New Student Education and Tour Programs

Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor’s Education Department has new student education and tour programs for 2012 and requests volunteers to help deliver these programs, plus develop additional ones, help manage events, process data entry, research, transcribe oral histories, and work on the Museum’s successful outreach program to 6th graders, “Barnstorming.” Other volunteers are need in [...]

Navy Receives Superferries… Will Be Used in Japan for Troop and Equipment Transport

The Navy has just gotten $210 million worth of high speed cats for $35 million. The U.S. Maritime Administration reports that it has now transferred the former Hawaii super ferries Huakai and Alakai to the U.S. Navy and that the Navy provided $35 million to the Maritime Administration for both vessels. Back in October 2005 [...]

New Luxury Resort Planned for Kona on the Big Island

GHM, a luxury resort and hotel group that manages exclusive properties anchored in Southeast Asia, is launching its third decade with plans for new boutique properties in locales well beyond its traditional geographic base. Over the next four years, as the new hotels come online in China and Switzerland, in India and the United Arab Emirates, GHM expects [...]

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