Kaua‘i News

The nation commemorated on Sunday one of the worst days the county has had to endure, paying tribute in ceremonies to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

A south swell is expected to build tonight and bring surf heights to advisory level for south facing shores for all the islands by Monday morning.

The state will create a new national center to provide access to culturally and linguistically appropriate behavioral health services for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders thanks to a federal grant.

Thank goodness for a break in trade winds during the last week of August. That break allowed a weak low-level trough to bring rainfall to the island, helping push most rainfall totals for the month to near or above average.

Thirty years ago today, Hurricane ʻIniki made landfall on the island of Kauaʻi as a Category 4 hurricane.

Adults who want to learn how to swim and parents who want their preschool-aged keiki to get a head-start on learning about water safety can get the lessons they need in October and November thanks to the county Department of Parks and Recreation.

A Lāwa‘i man is in critical condition at a Līhuʻe hospital after being involved in multiple traffic crashes late Friday night, Sept. 9.

Four Hawaiian monk seals found underweight and malnourished were rescued this summer by researchers in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands over the summer and brought to the Marine Mammal Center in Kona for care.

Do you have clothes you no longer wear? How about small furniture you no longer use? Have the keiki outgrown some of their toys?

Road work, specifically the construction of a new roundabout, will again require portions of several roadways in Kapa‘a to be temporarily closed.

Teams from Kaua‘i faced off against other youth from throughout the state who played in a recent basketball tournament hosted by the Hawai‘i Police Department on the Big Island.

The state Department of Transportation issued its weekly list of road and lane closures for Sept. 10-16.

Repairs to a bridge north of Wailua Homesteads Park are underway.

A man who founded the Hawai‘i chapter of a right-wing extremist group has pleaded guilty to a felony charge for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.

A new burrow of an endangered Hawaiian sea bird was discovered in August at the U.S. military’s training facility on Hawai‘i Island.

The state Department of Health on Thursday, Sept. 8, reported three additional cases of monkeypox.

Gov. David Ige has ordered that the United States flag and the Hawaiʻi state flag be flown at half-staff at the Hawaiʻi State Capitol and upon all state offices and agencies as well as the Hawaiʻi National Guard in the State of Hawaiʻi immediately until sunset on the day of interment as a mark of respect for Queen Elizabeth II.

Queen Elizabeth the II, Britain’s longest reigning monarch, has died, according to officials from Buckingham Palace.

The Kaua‘i Police Department finalized the revised application and permitting process for license to carry concealed and unconcealed firearms in response to the Supreme Court of the United States decision in the case of New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, No. 20-843 and Hawai‘i Attorney General Opinion 22-02, dated July 7.

The county is reminding the public that the deadline to file upcoming 2023 real property tax exemptions is Sept. 30.