Kauai News

The Department of Hawaiian Homes Lands will lead a public rally on Tuesday, March 25, to honor Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole, recognize legislative efforts aimed at decreasing DHHL’s waitlist, and promote support for proposed legislation.

The first hiker was hit in the head by a falling rock and the second hiker injured her leg.

Dr. Philip Verhoef highlights the critical role of vaccines in preventing the spread of this highly contagious disease if an outbreak makes it to the islands.

Graduates of Hawaiʻi Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Basic Corrections Recruit Class 25-01 are beginning their careers in facilities throughout the state after completing 8 weeks of training that included more than 300 hours of classroom instruction and physical training.

Kalāheo Elementary School teacher Marly Madayag and 24 other teachers are now part of an elite group statewide who earned certification through the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

Based on preliminary autopsy findings and information gathered during Kaua‘i Police Department investigation, 43-year-old Lucas Shepard’s cause of death is thought to be drowning. Foul play is not suspected.

The first phase of Olohena ‘Āina Center will have 20 acres for sublicensed farm plots, four acres for agroforestry and one acre for shared facilities.

There will be no contraflow set up and no lane closures, unless otherwise permitted, Wednesday, March 26, in observance of Prince Jonah Kūhiō Day. Lane closure schedules can change at any time without notice. All projects are weather permitting.

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, recipients who get “DA BUX” benefits receive an access card they swipe before their electronic benefits transfer, or EBT, card at checkout to get 50% off qualifying fruits and vegetables grown in Hawaiʻi at participating grocery stores.

8 dancers from Hawai’i Irish Dance and 7 flaggers from Scully’s Pub in Waiki’i had the luck of the Irish on their side, being one of several groups from around the globe — including cast of ‘Riverdance 30’ — to be featured during special episode of RTE Ireland’s ‘The Late, Late Show.’

23-year-old Luis Manterola — who refused to cooperate with police investigation — was arresteed for first-degree violation of privacy and is being detained at the Kaua‘i Police Department cellblock on $50,000 bail.

There seems to be enough evidence of some sort of collapse happening, which remains the only such event in the volcano’s documented history, simultaneously with a dramatic eruption that caused Hawai’i’s largest ever recorded earthquake, a magnitude-7.9 temblor that resulted in a tsunami and landslide in Ka’u that killed more than 100 people and lava flows that inundated 9 square miles.

Emergency crews from Kaua’i Ocean Safety and Kauaʻi Fire Department navigated through low visibilty and hazardous surf to rescue two kayakers from the sea last December.

Probable cause documents filed Monday provide more detail about the shooting and the 3-day manhunt that ended in Christopher Lucrisia, the alleged shooter of the officer, dying in a shootout Sunday with police.

Integrating woody plants and crops in lower and middle-elevation lands can revitalize agriculture, enhance biodiversity and preserve cultural traditions.

The newest eruptive phase of the ongoing eruption inside Halemaʻumaʻu Crater within Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park began just before 9:30 a.m. today (March 19), but the signature tall lava fountains the the active phases have become known for are expected later this afternoon.

The projects being pursued by Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative also are expected to generate enough electricity to power more than 30,000 Kauaʻi homes and save electric cooperative members a combined total of nearly $800 million throughout the next quarter of a century.

Among acceptable items are automotive products, lead-acid batteries, lawn and garden products, oil-based paints, thinners and stains, fluorescent lights, batteries and more.

It’s been 7 days, a whole week, since Episode 13 ended, which seems to be just the right amount of time lately for the Big Island volcano to recharge. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says new lava geysers could erupt in the vents within Halemaʻumaʻu Craterbefore as early as today.

Kau‘i County residents seeking a road permit can now do so without having to put rubber to the pavement. Paper applications are no longer accepted.