Via Big Island Now: The move to replace fossil-fueled, combustion engine buses with cleaner, quieter, more efficient electric buses on the Big Island, O‘ahu, and Maui got a boost from Public Utilities Commission approval of a pilot program offering special time-of-use rates for electric bus charging. The commission approved the Hawaiian Electric Companies’ new rates for a total of up to 20 bus fleet customers on three islands with lower […]
Kohala Connection: the creative team behind this ad are the late Jim Channon's son & son-in-law. ~Cosmic~
(Via BIVN) – A 75-year-old man “received wounds to his leg” in an apparent shark encounter that occurred after 10 a.m. Tuesday, within an isolated area between ‘Anaeho‘omalu Bay and Keawaiki off the Waikoloa coast of Hawai‘i Island.According to the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources: The man and three others report they were paddling outrigger canoes about a half-mile off shore when one of the boaters noticed the victim […]
A nonprofit group dedicated to recording whale songs wants to build a marine science center at Kawaihae Small Boat Harbor, and it’s secured support from a number of political, Native Hawaiian and marine backers. The applicant, Jupiter Research Foundation, is based in Los Altos, California, and Puako. In addition to its work with whales, the foundation also delves into wave glider instrumentation and the electrical behavior of plants, according to […]
HPD Media Release: Hawaiʻi Island Police are continuing their search for the suspect in a Kona shooting incident. Following up on tips from the community, police have checked locations in Kohala and Kona, and police teams continue to search for Walter Gomes III since the initial incident. “We appreciate the cooperation of citizens and Neighborhood Watch groups for being our eyes and ears on the street,” said Lieutenant Roylen Valera […]
This Surf Park live cams the conditions from Kawaihae. A vision for the future with an eye on the past Since the Hawaiian people first inhabited Kawaihae on the Kohala Coast of the Big Island, the reefs fronting Pua Ka`ilima Cultural Surf Park have been used for surfing. In 1992, Tiger Espere started a tradition bringing together surfers not only from the Big Island but from many parts of the […]
Via Hawaii Police Department Media Release: Hawaiʻi Island Police are continuing their investigation into an assault which occurred in Kailua-Kona on Wednesday, (March 20), where an adult woman sustained a single gun-shot wound. Investigators, acting on a combination of leads and community tips, focused their efforts in the North Kohala District mid-day, Thursday, (March 21). The suspect was seen in his vehicle and refused to surrender to police, which lead […]
