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.

Nic Barca doesn’t just hunt pigs. He’s the resident scholar of all things porcine on the island.

The state Department of Health says a high percentage of schools haven’t reported the number of kindergarten students who’ve received vaccination waivers.

The island’s highest point received monumental precipitation in 2018, and it wasn’t even ground zero for the rain bomb that caused April flooding.

After last year’s big flood and hurricane damage, two local communities are finding their footing with disaster plans tailored for their areas.

The Kauai Island Utility Cooperative is far ahead of the statewide schedule for conversion to alternative energy sources for producing electricity.