County officials agreed that giving up park land for the proposed affordable housing was more than the community would tolerate.

The Jewish Community of Kauai will also celebrate the completion of a new Torah during the High Holidays.

Health department surveys provide the most detailed assessment yet of how people are responding to new state preparedness recommendations.

Ever since the most distant stretch of the Kuhio Highway reopened, a group has been detaining nonlocal vehicles and passing out inaccurate parking information.

Todd Raybuck commanded one of nine patrol divisions packed into a single city. Now he oversees a short-staffed department, and it can get lonely out there.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources also hopes to cut in half the number of daily visitors to Haena State Park and its famed beaches and trails.

A federal grant to reconfigure roads in the core of this island’s county seat could spur enough private investment to bring back the good times.

Only one lane of the Kuhio Highway will be open on the stretch approaching the North Shore community for months.

Small independent bookstores can survive despite today’s proclivity toward digital downloads and a giant online retailer.

The statewide percentage of students exempted by their parents from being immunized is 8.1% at charter schools, 2.7% at private schools and 1.4% at traditional public schools.

UPDATED: For the first time, the state Department of Health has released statistics on vaccination rates for individual public and private schools.

The company left the islands in 1997, but it had already been ordered to make $180 million in loans, partially because of discrimination against Native Hawaiians and Filipinos.