HAMAKUA DITCH CLEANUP: Inmates of Kulani Correctional Facility remove vegetation from a wall of the Upper Hamakua Ditch, the final work in a two-month effort to clean the irrigation ditch.
[ Read more... ]

In Today's Edition
Hawaii News
Family, friends mourn free-spirited teenager
Gillian Badua died on Friday night after a car she was riding in hit a tree
Army faces questions on studies of Makua
The two studies remain available for public comment until April 3
Private schools to raise costs 6%
The increases will fund salaries and aid isle campuses
in Features
Family lessons
The Kims develop an online educational program for children
in Sports
Stacy P earns a 'V'
Prammanasudh holds off Lee by 1 to win the LPGA event
in Travel
Guide takes you for more than a ride
Kings' Trail Rides of Kealakekua was born in 1989
in Business
Fear of building
Contractors and engineering firms are capping the amount of residential work they can do because of the growing threat of lawsuits
in Editorial
Broad tax relief should ease burden on working poor
Democratic legislative leaders are backing measures to provide tax credits and rebates to low-income working families
Columns