Kaua‘i News

State lawmakers showed their support for Hawai‘i’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, plus community during the 2022 legislative session, passing several measures that further equality and inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community, and Gov. David Ige signed them into law last week — in the middle of Pride Month.

The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement is giving students and teachers scholarship opportunities to attend the 21st annual Native Hawaiian Convention on O‘ahu.

Short, intermittent closures are scheduled for Hanalei Bridge on Kūhiō Highway near mile maker 1.2 for routine maintenance of its wooden plank deck.

The Kauai Police Department’s Records and Firearms Window’s will be closed from 9 a.m. to noon on Friday June 24, 2022, for mandatory training.

Calling all Hawai‘i filmmakers and storytellers.

Due to maintenance and cleaning, the Waimea swimming pool is closed for the remainder of today, June 21.

A new series of reports from the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization shows that almost 2 in 3 adults in Hawaiʻi experienced adverse impacts — beyond the disease itself — from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trash pickup in the Līhu‘e and Kīlauea areas will be delayed today.

Gov. David Ige has appointed Bruce Voss as chairperson of the Hawaiʻi Board of Education, Ige’s office announced Monday evening.

The Department of Public Works and its contractor Maui Kupuno Builders announced that portions of Pu‘u Road in Kālaheo will be closed June 23 to July 21, weekdays, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., weather permitting.

Mokulele Airlines wants to unleash new mode of transportation for interisland travel in the form of sleek electric seaglider planes.

A public school teacher on O‘ahu was arrested and charged with distribution of child pornography last week.

A new, non-chemical product that is being used to control feral pig populations has landed in Hawai‘i, and its availability is raising concern in hunting circles that worry it will eradicate hog populations and with it, their rights to hunt.

The Department of Water’s 2022 Water Quality Reports, covering from Jan. 1, 2021, to Dec. 31, 2021, are now available to view online.

Residents, businesses and other organizations around the island can again bring unwanted or unneeded items for reuse to the Kaua‘i Resource Center in Līhu‘e during the upcoming monthly Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Center donation event.

Due to equipment issues, there will be a delay in refuse pick up today, June 20, in the Līhu‘e and Puhi areas, the county stated Monday morning.

The University of Hawaiʻi is hosting a free online forum to learn more about statewide efforts to expand broadband services and digital literacy opportunities, and the public is invited and encouraged to attend.

Polynesian voyaging canoes Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia returned home to Oʻahu on Thursday evening, June 16, after a successful voyage to and from Hawaiʻi’s ancestral homeland of Tahiti.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources and University of Guam are seeking Native Hawaiian and Filipino breast cancer survivors to be part of a new study.

Construction and road work will require portions of an island roadway to be closed this week.