Featured

AARP Hawaiʻi will host a series of free webinars on Saturdays in July that center on retirement plans.

After twelve years of planning, the European Space Agency on July 1 launched its Euclid satellite from Cape Canaveral, Fla., with the goal of answering those and many other questions, and it will get a big — and colorful — helping hand from three observatories in Hawai‘i.

Parents can now apply for the State of Hawaiʻi’s free, high-quality pre-kindergarten programs that are available to all 3- and 4-year-old children on Kauaʻi.

The Kaua’i Police Department is hosting Touch-a-Truck on July 8, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Vidinha Stadium in Līhu‘e. 

The closure is necessary for roadway excavation and construction. This work will occur on Kawaihau Road, between Iwena Road and Nunu Road.

The schedule for residential refuse pick-up will remain unchanged.

Hawaiian musician Henry Kapono will commemorate his 50-year music career and the iconic Songs of C&K with a special concert at the Porter Pavilion Complex in Kīlauea on Sept. 9.

A new database would connect Native Hawaiians with up-to-date information about Housing and Urban Development counseling services and grant and loan programs that would assist potential renters and homebuyers.  

The National Marine Sanctuary Foundation recently gave its prestigious 2023 Leadership Award to Case, who continues the fight for ocean-based climate solutions, sustainable climate ready fisheries management and international cooperation and coordination in saving the world’s oceans.

The report is based on applications submitted by 343 women from five different Hawaiian islands in the summers of 2021 and 2022.

Claire Wright and Tavana team up for their “I Could Use a Beach” tour, with a concert taking place at Anaina Hou Community Park on July 15.

Recent closures at all four refuse transfer stations have seen services eliminated or limited for various lengths of time. The reason behind most of the closures has been the same: old equipment in need of repair.

A 71-year-old clinical psychologist of Kailua-Kona was indicted on Friday for sexually assaulting a minor he was treating between June and December in 2019.

On Friday, Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green signed a $37.3 billion biennium state operating budget for fiscal years 24 and 25 and a bill that extends family tax credits for five years.

A blessing was held Wednesday for the $21.8 million Kalaheo Water Systems Improvements Project, the largest in the history of Kauaʻi County’s Department of Water.

The Kaua‘i chapter of the Surfrider Foundation has a full lineup of activities and volunteer opportunities scheduled through July.

A remarkable discovery of a planet’s survival after what should have been certain demise at the hands of its sun was made by astronomers from the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy.

Ten minutes after the 2022 eruption began on Mauna Loa, lava poured out over the floor of the summit caldera and destroyed the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory’s gas measuring station.

Between April 2023 and May 2023, the City and County of Honolulu discharged effluent from the wastewater treatment plant in exceedance of daily National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit limits for enterococci on 13 occasions, including exceeding the monthly permit limit for the month of April.

Not all coastal areas may be impacted by runoff, however, if the water is brown stay out.