Kaua‘i News

The U.S. Senate today unanimously passed the Safe Connections Act that will help survivors of domestic violence cut ties with their abusers and separate from shared wireless service plans.

Road work will close portions of Po‘ipū Road in March and April for a pair of projects, the County of Kaua‘i announced.

The Hawai‘i National Guard’s Joint Task Force has transitioned its remaining COVID-19 responsibilities such as vaccinations, testing, COVID-19 mapping, and unemployment office temperature screenings back to the state as of March 15, 2022.

A NOAA-led team of trained responders freed an entangled male humpback whale just outside Maʻalaea, Maui, in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, officials confirmed this afternoon.

The Kaua‘i Police Department is seeking assistance from the public to finding a missing man.

Staff training will require the Motor Vehicle Registration Division of the county Department of Motor Vehicles to close early later this week.

The state Department of Health reported 1,092 new COVID-19 cases Wednesday, bringing the statewide total to 238,764.

There is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi after a magnitude 7.3 earthquake hit near the east coast of Honshu, Japan, early this morning, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reported.

Construction and excavation work on two roadways will require periodic one-lane closures next week.

Hawai’i is an island state — there’s only so much land to use, no matter the purpose. And that includes rubbish. A contest sponsored by Kaua‘i County and the state Department of Health is teaching the island’s keiki that not all waste needs to be thrown away.

A 16-year-old female from O‘ahu was rescued at Queen’s Bath in Princeville Monday, March 14.

Fourteen community health centers across Hawai‘i will receive $23,749,447 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to continue providing health care services to underserved communities.

No injuries were reported after a fire Monday evening in Lawai that destroyed a shed and damaged the rear portion of a home.

Merrie Monarch Festival’s Hōʻike Night is sold out.

A Wailua woman is in critical condition after she was pulled from her vehicle, which was found overturned in a Kapaʿa stream off of Kamalu Road.

Next week’s new case numbers will include hundreds more, but they’ll actually be old cases.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, through its contractor Kaʻiwa Construction, is scheduled to conduct improvements to a main water line along Hokualele Road in Anahola, that will cause a temporary interruption in water service.

The state Department of Health Kaua‘i District Health Office announced no new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, March 14.

In his fourth State of the County Address, Mayor Derek S. K. Kawakami pledged to continue investing in Kauai’s associates, infrastructure and community as a whole – foundations he promised to improve when he first took office. 

Subaru Hawai‘i’s inaugural Love in Action campaign donated over $50,000 in matching donations to local nonprofits across the State of Hawai‘i.