West Hawaii Today, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii

Wildly varying hospital prices keep health care expensive

Editorial Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 9:29am

If further proof were needed that price competition doesn’t exist in the expensive U.S. healt care market, it arrived this month. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services published 2011...

<p>Rescue workers comb through the wreckage of a tornado in Moore, Okla. early Tuesday. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds. (Mike Simons, Tulsa World/AP Photo)</p>

lawmakers who opposed Sandy aid now face disaster

Nation & World News Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 9:14am

WASHINGTON — When $50 billion in disaster aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy came before Congress this year, three of Oklahoma’s five representatives and both of its senators were among the “no”...

Wind advisory issued for Big Isle summits

Community bulletin Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 8:18am

A wind advisory remains in effect for Big Island summits through 6 p.m.

The service forecast southwest to west winds of 25 to 45 mph for the Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea summits above the 8,000-...

High surf advisory remains in effect

Community bulletin Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 8:16am

A high surf advisory remains in effect for the Big Island’s north-, east- and south-facing shores through 6 p.m.

The National Weather Service in Honolulu forecast waves ranging in height...

<p>Naia X, a feisty, young singer-songwriter being forced to work as a miner to pay back debt incurred by her ancestors some 200 years after the Great Exodus of Earth, is shown. ғtrange FrameӠis a science fiction romance story centered around the theme of the transformative power of love between two women. (Photo courtesy GB Hajim/Special to West Hawaii Today)</p>

Big Island Film Festival

Local News Comments Updated: May 22, 2013 8:13am

Three local films, including an animated sci-fi romance, a slice-of-real-life drama and a murder mystery, are among the 54 selections for the eighth annual Big Island Film Festival opening...