The birth rates are a reflection of the state’s diverse population as a whole.

Mayor Caldwell: Someday the controversy over funding the project will be forgotten and people will “just be grateful it was done.”

More than 200 people have been taken into custody since 2015 in a state wilderness park on Kauai.

The Board of Water Supply wants to tear down the “Stairway to Heaven,” which has been officially closed to the public since 1987.

That would put Mayor Kirk Caldwell at $173,000 and the new police chief would receive $191,000.