Kauai News

In celebration of Women’s History Month the committee opened the contest from January to March, to all Kaua‘i public, private, charter and home-school high school students.

Kekaha Family Fun Day and Play Streets will take place at the Kekaha Neighborhood Center, Elepaio Road and Kekaha Park.

According to police, the man was captured on camera walking into the Aloha Isle Moving warehouse on Leleiona Street and exiting while carrying a mattress.

A staff astronomer at W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea was part of a team of international scientists that captured first time images of starlight from two massive galaxies hosting actively growing black holes from less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

Fish Pono–Save Our Reefs is a new organization of ocean-lovers, scientists, fishers and watermen and women that has a vision of bringing awareness to the importance of replenishing herbivore fish populations to foster healthy coral  reefs. 

Senate Armed Services Committee approval is the first step in the process to establish defense funding levels and set policies for the Department of Defense.

A fire protection setup with water tenders and spotters provided by the farm is in place to monitor this permitted activity.

The occupancy for Kauaʻi vacation rentals in May was 51.7%, which is down 1.1% from a year ago and 28.2% lower than May 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic struck.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has committed nearly $16 million as part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to prevent the imminent extinction of Hawaiian Forest Birds, including the ʻakikiki (Kauaʻi honeycreeper).

The first wave of 16 sailboats are crossing the starting line in the vicinity of Point Fermin in San Pedro on Tuesday to start the 2023 Transpac competition from California to Oʻahu.

Due to damage from a water leak on June 18, certain offices, along with the Department of Human Resources are undergoing repairs.

During the 40 years it has been a natural area reserve, Ka‘ena Point has been restored to one of the last wild places on an otherwise mostly urbanized O‘ahu.

Critical access hospitals are rural hospitals with 25 or fewer acute care beds who receive financial assistance through the Medicare program.

According to a preliminary report, Kaua‘i Fire Department personnel received a report at approximately 5:30 p.m. of a brush fire by mile-marker 3 on Waimea Canyon Drive in Kōke‘e.

Rents at the Courtyards at Waipouli have increased 55% over the past four years, and almost all of the original local residents have moved out or become houseless, according to advocacy group Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice.

The event is free and open to the public, and features Common Kings as the music headliner.

7-Eleven Hawaiʻi and OmniFoods have collaborated to introduce a new plant-based katsu musubi, featuring the award-winning Omni Luncheon plant-based meats.

Update: The National Weather Service has canceled a high surf advisory for Kauaʻi and Niʻihau.

The closure will take place from 11 p.m. Sunday night through 5:30 a.m. Friday.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has entered into an agreement with Hawaiʻi Community Lending to expand access to homes in rural Hawaʻi for low and very-low income residents.