Hawai‘i News

Fireworks permits can be purchased through New Year’s Eve, while supplies last, in person thanks to a pilot program launched by the Kaua‘i Fire Department.

Water sample retesting results show that enterococci levels no longer exceed the threshold level.

Maya van Rossum, founder and leader of The Green Amendment for the Generations Movement, will lead the discussion.

More than 30 of the grants awarded through the Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture’s Micro-Grants for Food Security Program are coming to Kauaʻi County.

Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green appointed former Kauaʻi County Councilmember Jimmy Tokioka as Deputy of the Department of Transportation – Airports Division.

The Kaua‘i Police Department thanks the public for its assistance in locating Jessica Rose Lucero.

Although two separate state departments exist today, the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Agriculture continue to maintain similar land stewardship principles that complement one another.

The increase is designed to provide the co-op with about a 9.42% increase in its electric revenues.

The search for 56-year-old Prakash Shroff was suspended Wednesday afternoon after a four-day effort by land, air and sea to find him.

The public has until Friday, Dec. 30, to comment on a request from the state to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for an emergency exemption from the federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act.

The governor extended the disaster emergency relief period through Jan. 6, 2023.

The 42 men and women of recruit class 22-01 collected more than 80 new toys, books and games for the annual toy drive.

Short interviews with Ka‘u coffee growers on the Big Island share what it took to create an award-winning coffee while establishing Ka‘u as a premiere coffee region.

The association was founded in 2003 during a time of uncertainty in Hawaiʻi’s lumber industry, when lumber professionals were struggling to compete with other building material businesses.

The purpose of the public briefings is to provide the space for state and county agencies to present their budget requests to the Ways and Means committee prior to the start of the 2023 Hawaiʻi State legislative session. 

The Magical Creatures Sanctuary opened in 2018 in Laupāhoehoe and is home to more than 90 animals who were saved from slaughter, rescued from neglect, have special needs, or were orphaned or injured in the wild.

Often, the earliest signs of volcanic unrest, before lava is seen, are provided by earthquake activity occurring deeper within the Earth than where other volcano monitoring capabilities can reach. 

It snows every year in Hawaiʻi at the summits of the state’s three tallest mountains, but almost never below 9,000 feet.

At Old Kona Airport Beach Park on the Big Island, a flight nurse, a paramedic and a pilot were mourned during a sunset vigil.

Maunakea Rangers from the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo for Maunakea Stewardship plowed snow on the road to the summit today.