“I’m going back to being a freesurfer,” he says. “It’s what I was meant to do.”

Finally. After four and a half years of tough losses and sporadic highlights, the once-touted “best freesurfer in the world” will soon be back out there to reclaim his crown. At the end of 2008, no matter how he finishes [...]

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Kee Beach at the end of the road on Kauai’s North Shore is undergoing a face lift thanks to the state.

State work at Ke’e Beach on Kauai aims to clean a once-neglected site
Ke’e Beach, at the end of the road on Kauai’s North Shore, has been, for decades, at the end of the list when [...]

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Temporary traffic signals have been installed at the intersection of Kuhio Highway and Kolo Road in Kilauea on Kauai.
The State Department of Transportation said the signals are currently in a flashing mode.
Flashing red lights should be treated as a stop sign and approaching vehicles should come to a complete stop before proceeding through the intersection. [...]

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Ocean Safety officials warned beachgoers on Tuesday to stay out of the water on Kauai’s North Shore after sharks were spotted.
A whale carcass was found drifting offshore of ‘Anini Beach at a surf spot known as “Wires,” the Kauai Fire Department said.
Sharks and other sea creatures were spotted at different spots between Kalihiwai and ‘Anini [...]

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Bethany Hamilton advanced to Round 3 and Roy Powers won his heat yesterday in the Drug Aware Pro at Margaret River in Australia.
Hamilton surfed the 9- to 10-foot waves to finish second to Australia’s Nicola Atherton and will face New Zealand’s Paige Hareb.
Other Hawai‘i surfers in the competition were Alana Blanchard, Megan Abubo, Paige Alms, [...]

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A 48-year-old South Carolina man was rescued from the surf at Lumahai Beach on the North Shore yesterday around 3 p.m.
County spokesperson Mary Daubert said bystander Nikona Ghiglari observed the West Cola, S.C. man in distress, and retrieved a recently installed rescue tube and swam out to assist the struggling man. Craig Touchton was brought [...]

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