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The concert features a special arrangement of Gustav Holst’s early 20th century classic, the seven-movement suite “The Planets.”

The trail remains closed for seven days.

Professor Ralf Kaiser’s group will study the atmospheric chemistry of gas phase refrigerants.

New insights into yeast diversity will be used to predict global species diversity, host and habitat specificity and diversity hotspots.

The Kaua‘i Sea Scouts is a youth development program founded in 2009 by father-and-son team Larry and Max Richardson.

One of the sick hikers claimed she fell ill after drinking water in the area.

Survey observations using the Subaru Telescope’s ultra-widefield prime focus camera have revealed that there may be a population of small bodies further out in the Kuiper Belt waiting to be discovered.

Gov. Josh Green, M.D., will travel to Japan on Monday, Sept. 2, to engage in cross-cultural exchanges, attend business meetings on behalf of the state of Hawai‘i, and sign a sister-state memorandum of understanding. Green will also lead a delegation of local businesses for the Tokyo International Gift Show, meet with the US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, and will meet with leaders from Fukuoka, Ehime and Hiroshima prefectures. 

If you are one of those who get the long weekend, we hope you’re enjoying the extra day off. Take some time to learn about the history of why today is a holiday and a few fun labor facts to go with it.

One lane will remain open to accommodate alternating traffic in both directions.

A team led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers aims to use a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to tackle clean energy needs on multiple fronts from sustainable solutions and integrating Native Hawaiian knowledge to engaging with high school students.

During the most recent test on Aug. 17, the Surfrider Foundation revealed most of the streams were polluted with human wastes from cesspools.

Seven forestry projects have been selected by Kaulunani Urban and Community Forestry, a program of the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW), to receive funds to strengthen community connections with trees. Funding from Kaulunani will support these projects on Kauaʻi, Maui, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island over the next three years.

While Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park and the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory have worked well together responding to volcanic unrest and eruptions for decades, the new interagency plan puts their practices down on paper.

Three questions in the survey asked about Coco Palms, but only the responses to the final question were included in the published public opinion report. 

On Kaua‘i, conservationists are flying a helicopter to spread a harmless bacterium in native forests inhabited by near-extinct honeycreepers, like the ‘akikiki.

Kaua‘i competitors registered as Corey Medeiros and Alexei Daunis now hold the lead for longest tilapia and third-longest roi, respectively.

Tropical moisture from the two former tropical cyclones is causing dew points to spike into the mid to upper 70s, making it steamy, sticky and stifling around the island.

The siren test will be coordinated with a test of the Live Audio Broadcast segment of the Emergency Alert System.

The circumnavigation of the Pacific aims to begin a movement of “planetary navigators” who will work to ensure a better future for Earth.