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These sessions will highlight findings from the county’s recently completed comprehensive water systems evaluation and water rate study.

Instead of hosting a gala or formal dinner to commemorate the milestone, the organization invites and encourages individuals, families, organizations, farmers, businesses, healers, educators and everyday changemakers to be part of what executive director Megan Fox calls ‘a living expression of lōkahi.’

The Surfrider Foundation Kauaʻi Chapter reported high concentrations of bacteria and water quality challenges in 19 different locations for January and February.

Noho Workshop selection to oversee campus buildout — plus partnership with locally and internationally respected planner Gordon Karau as facilities project manager — reaffirms school’s commitment to be “from and for the community.”

Hawaiʻi’s Hale Kamaʻāina program is desigined to break down barriers for aspiring homeowners by offering a chance at 30-year fixed-rate mortgages with interest rates as low as 5.4%.

The master lease of lands atop the Big Island mountain is set to expire Dec. 31, 2033.

The concert at Anaina Hou Community Park in Kīlauea will feature Helm — one of Hawai‘i’s premier female vocalists — as you’ve never heard her before in an elegant performance that is as much musical celebration as cultural reclamation.

A flood watch is in effect through 6 p.m. Monday (Feb. 23) as slow-moving, heavy showers and isolated thunderstorms develop over island interiors before shifting to windward and mauka areas of the islands tonight.

Recently released new mele Hawaiʻi featuring duet between award-winning Hawaiʻi musician and University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Hawaiian language PhD student Nicholas Kealiʻi Lum and Japan-born musician and trained ʻōlapa hula Tom Noʻeau offers compelling example of how Hawaiian language is taking root far beyond the islands.

Esteemed kumu hula Nālani Kanakaʻole, whose life’s work transformed Native Hawaiian cultural traditions globally, was honored in a traditional Hawaiian ceremony, underscoring her far-reaching influence in hula and Hawaiian values.

The feedback garnered from the survey is invaluable, plus it helps state education officials and school leadership assess as well as enhance the quality of education in Hawai‘i schools; all responses also are strictly confidential.

National Weather Service in Honolulu reports surf along eastern shorelines has fallen below advisory levels.

Data suggest it is, though not in the same way as traditional left-behind regions.

Hawai’i House Committee on Transportation moved House Bill 1708 ahead with 7 yes votes; the bill would make a second DUI offense with a blood-alcohol content more than 0.15% — and within 10 years of a driver’s first DUI conviction — a Class C felony.

Visual observations have been a backbone of volcano research more than 2,000 years and remain fundamental to understanding how volcanoes work; advancements in technology even allow eruptions to be viewed from anywhere around the world.

Honorees are Albert Cadavona, Chrysanthemum “Christine” Erorita and Joseph “Jay” Perreira Jr.; they were recognized Thursday (Feb. 19) during the monthly meeting of Kaua‘i County Board of Water Supply.

United States ProMiniGolf Association for the first time will host its annual U.S. Open in Hawai‘i, with the 28th contest hitting the greens at Kaua‘i Mini Golf & Botanical Gardens in Anaina Hou Community Park in Kīlauea, and you can even be part of the historic fun.

Students who are selected each receive $20,000 throughout 4 years — or a pro-rated amount for fewer years — that can be applied to tuition, books, housing and other educational expenses; deadline to apply online is Feb. 23.

Those interested in serving in the vacant commission seat should submit an application along with a résumé and three letters of recommendation attesting to the applicant’s character and integrity no later than March 13.

The study reveals the origin and evolution of turbulence in the corona, a process long linked to coronal heating and the acceleration of the solar wind.