In March, the Honolulu City Council began deliberating on the City’s budget for the upcoming 2024 – 2025 fiscal year. The Council’s role in this process is to ...

For decades at the Waialua Sugar’s company store on the central square of Waialua town, thousands of sugar workers could get food, clothing, and supplies, usually on a charge account keyed to the ...

On December 22nd, 2024 singer songwriter musician artist and professional surfer 28 year old Landon McNamara won the 11th running of the Rip Curl Eddie Aikau Invitational at Waimea Bay on O’ahu. It ...

The former Haleiwa Hotel is well known. Less so were the ‘Seaside Hotel,’ the ‘Doi Hotel,’ the ‘Fujita Hotel,’ and the large hotel at the Kahuku Marconi Transmitter. All were accessible by railroad.

Many have wondered: where were the camps, how many were there, and what was life like in a workers’ camp during the 98 years of the Waialua Agricultural Company’s North Shore operations? I recently ...

When the Waialua mill stack was suddenly demolished last November, everyone noticed. There was consternation and sadness. Without being used an old landmark structure or site will languish. It’s like ...

At the south end of Kamehameha Highway in Hale’iwa sits a small cluster of shops located in the historic 1914 K. Nishimura Building. Amongst these shops is the new location for Hi Pie Bakery which is ...

Partners Rain Magyar and surfboard manufacturer Steve Matthews from 3rd Stone opened the Hale‘iwa Surf Shop a few years ago. The shop is located across from Hale‘iwa Ali‘i beach park in the original ...

As a Nurse Practitioner at Kahuku Medical Center, I have valued the level of involvement and kuleana that KMC has taken in caring for our community and decided to follow their example by taking it to ...

This year the 2023 North Shore Hanapa‘a Jackpot fishing tournament was dedicated to one of the original coordinators and participants of the tournament, Uncle Gabby Gonsalves. In a small gesture of ...

The area that now surrounds the intersection of Hale’iwa Road and Kamehameha Highway has seen many changes over the years. The iconic Hale’iwa Hotel was built there in 1898. The Sea View Inn was built ...

Set behind giant banyan trees at the Waialua Bandstand Park is the old Waialua Sugar Mill. The mill is a converted Sugar Mill turned business park that hosts a collection of eclectic artists that ...