Kauai News

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. 

All projects are weather permitting.

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.

The woman, a resident of Oregon, was found safe and uninjured.

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.

There were no occupants in the unit at the time of the fire at the time of the incident, however, crews did evacuate the building as a precaution.

A portion of Maluhia Road, from mile marker 2 to mile marker 3, will be closed on Sept. 3.

Researchers assessed the age of critically endangered, free-ranging dolphins in Greece.

Residents must continue to carry their physical cards.

The closures are to allow the Department of Water and its contractor, Hawaiian Dredging Construction Company, Inc. to excavate and conduct waterline work.

“If you don’t deal seriously with climate change … If we don’t have some kind of ability to deal with the impact of climate, we’re gonna see this again,” Green said of the 2023 wildfires on Maui.