Caution urged for drivers in Lahaina pali tunnel
LAHAINA >> State transportation officials are advising Maui motorists to exercise caution when traveling through the Lahaina pali tunnel starting tomorrow night because of a construction project.One of the two lanes on Honoapiilani Highway will be closed at the tunnel from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. Sundays through Thursdays.
The $880,000 project, awarded to Site Engineering Inc., is expected to be completed in several weeks, said highways construction engineer Athan Adachi. Adachi said the work includes the resurfacing of walls and the installation of tunnel lighting.
3 live grenades found in Big Isle school garden
WAIMEA, Hawaii >> Army experts have found and removed three live, World War II-era grenades at a garden at Waimea Middle School on the Big Island, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced.Army contractors used the current spring break to survey the garden. A live grenade was found at the garden on Feb. 5, and the garden was closed.
Besides the three live grenades, contractors located an inert piece of another grenade and seven bullets, all below ground, the corps said. Explosive experts from Pohakuloa Training Area disposed of the live ammunition.
The school is in a World War II training location called the Waikoloa Maneuver Area.
The survey of the school grounds for ammunition was to conclude yesterday, but the Army urged anyone discovering more ammunition to notify police.
Grant will fund protecting public health at beaches
The state has been awarded $325,150 as part of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant to protect public health at beaches, officials said.The funds were part of the agency's $10 million in grants to coastal states announced Thursday in Washington, D.C.
U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink (D-Rural Oahu, Neighbor Islands) said the funds are intended to improve monitoring of water quality and for notifying the public of beach warnings and closings.
Season's last humpback count under way today
The last count of humpback whales of the season will take place today, with volunteers at 25 sites on Oahu, additional sites on Kauai and the Big Island, and a plane equipped with high-tech imaging equipment designed to spot the giant marine mammals from the air, federal officials said.The count is sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.
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Autopsy will be performed on girl who died Thursday
The Honolulu medical examiner will perform an autopsy next week on a 2-year-old Maili girl who died Thursday at the Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center.The girl's father told police he woke up at about 6:15 a.m. and found his daughter in bed unresponsive. The girl was taken to the health center, where she died.
