Kaua‘i News

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.  

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.

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

Pacific Biodiesel Technologies, owner and operator of the biodiesel refinery on Hawai‘i Island, will supply biodiesel for the Kaua‘i Island Utility Cooperative to be used to partially fuel its 27.5 megawatt Kapaia Power Generation Station.

University of Hawai’i President David Lassner called the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down affirmative action in college admissions “beyond disappointing.”

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.