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Residents will still need to file claims with insurance companies for residential damage and personal property losses.

The 2026 Hope Scholarship awards students who demonstrate academic excellence, leadership, and determination, with priority given to those with financial need.

Healing Horses Kauaʻi is hosting a program that offers a unique chance to explore human-animal connections through therapeutic activities with horses beginning this month.

Kapaʻa sewage pump station rehabilitation will close a lane on Papaloa Road and Hanalei Water Line Improvements Project will cause intermittent lane closures this week.

Senate Education Week 2026 spotlights students, educators blazing a trail in academic excellence and innovation.

Costco Wholesale has issued a recall for its Meatloaf with Mashed Yukon Potatoes and Glaze, item No. 30783, due to potential salmonella contamination.

Longtime Kīhei resident Daniel Baralt said the force of the roaring water coming down from Haleakalā “just took the cars and just played with them like toys.”

The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs urges residents to expedite insurance claims and safeguard their property by reviewing their coverage and documenting damages carefully.

A new research initiative on Kauaʻi’s west side has uncovered a disturbing rise in vehicle-related deaths of endangered nēnē along a 5-mile stretch of Kaumualiʻi Highway.

Waimea Canyon Middle School students experienced a behind the scenes view of careers at the military facility and gained insight into the skills and education needed for these professions. 

The County of Kauaʻi is allowing the Kauaʻi Interscholastic Federation to gain limited access to the track for scheduled events, but no spectators are allowed.

“Any gap in Title X funding could result in over 2 million patients losing access to contraception and preventative care, worsen maternal health outcomes and increase sexually transmitted infections,” says a letter signed by Hawai’i U.S. Sens. Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz, plus 34 of their Senate colleagues to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice. All projects are weather permitting.

Healing Horses Kauaʻi invites children to gallop into self-discovery at its 2026 Spring Horsemanship and Riding Camps.

State lawmakers say the 7 measures will modernize state’s criminal justice system; Hawai‘i County Prosecuting Attorney Kelden Waltjen expressed disappointment about three of them, however, saying they ‘will only further diminish the public’s trust.’

In an unusual creative collaboration, ʻIwi Nails and Kahua ʻĀina partnered with Friends of Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge to spotlight and fund the conservation of Hawaiʻi’s endangered birds.

Volcanic material as large as 6 inches was reported at Volcano Golf Course after being erupted from the Big Island volcano’s most recent lava fountaining episode Tuesday (March 10); fallout caused closures of a portion of Highway 11, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, swimming pools and at least one school, emergency shelter opening and new summit webcam getting ‘clobbered.’

Port of Nāwiliwili will close today at 11:30 a.m. because of heavy weather conditions, so all cargo destined for Honolulu must be in-gated no later; barge is returning to Honolulu and a recovery sailing is planned for Sunday (March 14), ocean and weather conditions permitting.

Hawai’i County Civil Defense reported aftershocks are possible and there was no threat of tsunami following the temblor early Thursday evening (March 12) off the Kaʻū Coast in the southern portion of the Big Island.

American Red Cross Pacific Islands Region issued a correction Friday morning (March 13) to earlier information shared that said the evacuation location at Kapa‘a Middle School opened Thursday (March 12).