Kauai News

The closures and detours are necessary so crews can proceed with clearing and grubbing, roadway excavation, sidewalk construction and roadway construction as part of an ongoing roundabout construction project.

“While we know we cannot solve all our island’s issues, our operating budget aims to meet the community’s expectations with a focus on infrastructure, infrastructure and infrastructure,” Kaua’i Mayor Derek S.K. Kawakami said in his State of the County address.

Mayor Kawakami’s 2023 State of the County Address will be live-streamed online at  www.facebook.com/CountyofKauai. You may also view the State of the County at www.kauai.gov and Ho‘ike Kaua‘i TV, channel 53 at a later date.

The Kauaʻi Fire Department’s Chopper 1 helicopter was en route around 3:15 p.m. on Monday to rescue a female hiker who suffered a leg injury during a fall on Kalalau Trail just above Hanakapi’ai beach.

Hawaiian Telcom crews work to relocate utility poles for improvements of the Kuli and Lauoho Roads intersections.

The closure is necessary for an engineering study for future improvements of Wawae Road.

The “Reforest Hawaiʻi, Capture the Carbon” event on March 19 begins at 7:30 a.m.

The University of Hawaiʻi’s innovative academic program HealthCAST is celebrating 10 years of strategically bringing acting and nursing students together so both can improve their skills outside the classroom.

Ilima Shim, a mother of two who lives in Kapolei, O‘ahu, and grew up in Hōnaunau on the Big Island’s west side, finished in the top six of season four of the CBS reality TV competition show “Tough As Nails.”

At about 6 p.m. Friday, police were dispatched to a report of a man who fell and collided with a vehicle in the Hokulei Village parking lot in Līhu‘e. According to a preliminary report, the visitor was crossing the parking lot when he tripped and fell into a grey Toyota Tacoma operated by a 27-year-old man from Hanapēpē.

Today, a 64-year-old female hiker who sustained a leg injury on Kauai’s Sleeping Giant (Nounou) hiking trail was lifted out of the area by a helicopter.

Advisory level surf is no longer expected as a northwest swell moving through the area eases.

“Every May, during Older Americans Month, we pay tribute to older adults 65 years and older who play vital, positive roles in our communities,” said Kealoha Takahashi, executive for the Agency on Elderly Affairs.

On Kaua’i, there is no shortage of the four components necessary for composting: carbon, nitrogen, water and air.

An injured female hiker, located about 1,000 yards below Kauai’s popular Ho’opi hiking trail’s second falls, is being treated for serious injuries by first responders, but weather and location is hampering the rescue.

The cooling of inflation in Hawaiʻi and nationally is welcome news. But whether it continues to recede will determine if the Federal Reserve pushes interest rates higher and for longer.

The eruption of Kīlauea has paused after 61 days of lava activity. There also is no active lava within Moku‘āweoweo caldera at the summit of Mauna Loa on the Big island.

The Kauaʻi County Department of Water is partnering in this national effort once again to offer free leak-detection toilet tablets throughout the month of March.

Even the Subaru Telescope, which normally has its sights set on the cosmos above the summit of Maunakea, tweeted a video of a lenticular cloud over its base facility in Hilo.

State divers conducted a damage assessment and found the grounding and salvage operation of a 120-ton yacht off the shore of Maui caused damage to corals and reef live rock covering at least 19,434-square-feet.