Kaua‘i News

The Hawaiʻi State Department of Land and Natural Resources, in partnership with the Kure Atoll Conservancy, is seeking habitat restoration volunteers to work at the Kure Atoll State Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Poipu Bay Course in Koloa hosted the 2022 Aloha Section PGA Championship, which was won by Michael Castillo, PGA head golf professional at Kapalua Plantation Course on Maui.

After 73 days spent alone, rowing a boat nearly 2,400 miles across the world’s largest and deepest ocean, surviving on limited rations of mostly freeze-dried food, Carlo Facchino finished his epic San Francisco to Hilo journey.

With the lights of the Hilo breakwater in his sights Wednesday night, Carlo Facchino was oh so close to finishing his 70-plus-day, 2,400-mile solo row across the Pacific Ocean.

In the contract between ORBT and Williams Construction, ORBT was to pay a $170,000 retainer for the jungle house & cabin and a $375,000 retainer for the tree houses.

Hawaiʻi nonprofit ClimbHI has launched Hospitality for Me, a new statewide program that connects schools with hospitality industry resources to enhance education and job readiness for high school students.

Three people are displaced after a fire broke out in a Līhu‘e apartment on Monday damaging two units.

It’s been more than 70 days since Carlo Facchino left San Francisco in his 19-foot classic-style ocean rowboat. Just him. Alone.

The state Department of Health reported 1,343 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, Sept. 14, bringing the statewide total to 342,072.

How terrified are South Kona residents of recent reports – not to mention photos and now videos – of an apparent big cat prowling the coffee belt region of the Big Island? Depends on whom you ask.

A Kaua‘i resident is dead following a traffic crash in Princeville.

No injuries were reported following a brush fire Monday afternoon that broke out in a coffee field in Kalāheo.

To deal with the school bus driver shortage, the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education launched a statewide pilot program to provide free county bus passes for high school students.

Two Kaua‘i men were arrested following a joint police operation to identify and apprehend online sexual predators targeting children.

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.

Currently, multi-agency partnerships are evaluating the use of common, naturally-occurring bacteria as a “mosquito birth control” to suppress mosquito populations and bring Kaua’i’s native forest bird populations back from near extinction.

The Hawaii Lodging & Tourism Association kicked out this weekend the totals raised during the organization’s 43rd Visitor Industry Charity Walk, which raised $2.2 million statewide that will be distributed to local nonprofit organizations across the Aloha State.

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.