Kaua‘i News

Expect strong breaking waves, shore break, and strong longshore and rip currents making swimming difficult and dangerous.

The state’s two-week average is now 652 new cases daily, with a test positivity rate of 7.5%.

On Saturday morning, Aug. 14, first responders rescued two female visitors from California from waters off Lāwa‘i Beach in Po‘ipū.

A total of 3,030 individuals have been hospitalized as a result of COVID-19 infection since the pandemic began, while at least 552 have died.

HILT received funds under the program’s “Natural Environment” category, with each of the six letters of the CHANGE framework representing an area of focus for the wellbeing of our communities.

The County of Kaua‘i’s Ho‘ohana Kaua‘i program, in collaboration with the American Job Center-Kaua‘i, will hold a job fair on Aug. 26 and 27, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the breezeway at the Līhu‘e Civic Center.

The state Department of Labor & Industrial Relations will start accepting telephone appointments for complex, disputed unemployment insurance claims.

Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation announced weekly road and lane closures for Aug. 14-20.

The Hawaiʻi Department Health reports 791 new COVID-19 cases as of Saturday, Aug. 14, bringing the statewide total to 50,355.

An increase in COVID-19 cases was reported in public schools across all Hawaii Department of Educationʻs complexes statewide including on Kauaʻi.

Kaua‘i’s new mobile vaccine van and pop-up clinics are making the rounds around the island for the next three Saturdays.

Multiple sections of Kōloa Road and Maluhia Road will be under short lane closures for guardrail work and shoulder work starting next week.

In Hawai´i’s attempts to forge a new normal, the state has stumbled into an unprecedented phase of the same old pandemic, only this time on steroids.

All Hawai‘i State Department of Education (HIDOE) employees will be required to be tested weekly for COVID-19 beginning Aug. 23 to comply with a recent vaccination mandate passed down by Gov. David Ige.

Native Hawaiian health care centers across the state will receive $20 million in federal funding as they continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kauaʻi County Mayor Derek Kawakami was interviewed by Pacific Media Group COO and Kauaʻi Now Director, Jack Dugan about some of the greatest challenges facing the county today.

The record number of COVID-19 cases reported in a day was once again shattered with the Department of Health confirming 1,167 new cases this morning, Aug. 13.

Kaneka Steet in Līhu‘e will be closed through 5 p.m., Aug. 13, to allow Maui Kupono Builders to accommodate road resurfacing work.

Two female hikers in distress were airlifted off of Hihimanu Trail in Hanalei on Thursday, Aug. 12.

The COVID-19 Delta variant continues to spread on Kaua‘i at an alarming rate, a Kaua‘i District Health Office official reported in a county update Thursday, Aug. 12.