Kaua‘i News

The Association of Hawaiians for Homestead Lands, a federal office of the U.S. Department of the Interior, is hosting a virtual national briefing about the beneficiary $600 million spending plan for Act 279 on Dec. 21.

A water service shutdown is scheduled on Wednesday to allow contractor, Pipeworks to install a service lateral along Kaumuali’i Highway, between Kona Road and Puna Road in Hanapepe.

This isn’t the first time homebuyers have found fault with the nation’s largest homebuilder, which has spent millions on construction defect claims.

The Kauaʻi Humane Society in Līhuʻe is in a capacity crisis with all 58 kennels in the facility filled and is urging the community to adopt or foster shelter dogs.

Social media can either be a powerful tool for sharing information or a mouthpiece for tremendously hurtful and inaccurate comments directed toward people dealing with a tragedy.

Some locations that will experience flooding include Kapaʻa, Princeville, Kīlauea, Hanalei, Moloaʻa, Wainiha, Wailua Homesteads, Hāʻena, Wailua, Nā Pali State Park and Kealia.

Pacific Media Group, or PMG, has entered into an agreement to purchase KFMN on Kaua‘i. The purchase is pending Federal Communications Commission approval.

Kris Kringle will be at the Kapa‘a Shopping Center during Kapa‘a Kalikimaka with Hawaiian Telcom on Saturday.

According to the U.S. Coast Guard, the missing aircraft is a Hawai’i Life Flight King Air twin-engine propeller plane that had three crew members aboard.

Although some areas of Hawai’i may have experienced shaking from the earthquake in the Pacific Ocean, no tsunami is expected for the Hawaiian Islands.

Rising interest rates, dwindling COVID-19 pandemic era savings and a coming U.S. downturn will cause a pause in growth next year for the state.

Activists on Kaua’i slammed waste-to-energy as a potential solution to the island’s looming garbage-disposal crisis.

Dangerous surf of 20 to 30 feet is forecast along north-facing shores and 14 to 22 feet along west facing shores of Niʻihau, Kauaʻi, Oʻahu and Molokaʻi.

Authorities are investigating a single-engine plane crash at Līhu‘e Airport this afternoon that left two people injured.

County officials closed the bridge in June due to safety concerns surrounding the bridge’s foundation.

U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono from Hawaiʻi will answer kūpuna questions on how the Inflation Reduction Act will lower prescription drug prices for Medicare recipients at a live telephone forum sponsored by AARP Hawaiʻi on Dec. 17.

Portions of Halaulani Road and Kahiliholo Road in Kalihiwai will be closed Dec. 19 to Jan. 13, weekdays, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., weather permitting.

County parks crews are slated to conduct maintenance throughout the morning and afternoon of Dec. 15.

Police will close off all streets along the parade route, beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Ho‘omalu Ke Kai, one of the cleanup’s hosts, collected nearly 20,000 pounds of marine debris from Kaua‘i shorelines in 2022.