Reducing the attractiveness of solar panels to birds by tilting them upright overnight is among the proposed deterrents.

The largely symbolic resolution lends the county’s support to the state Department of Health’s directive to suspend operations.

The county said it would make shelter beds available prior to moving homeless people from the area in September but the lawsuit says adequate space was not provided.

Don Guzman says his struggles with diabetes caused him to behave irrationally at times but that he warned the mayor that might happen.

New refuges are sought as scientists battle disease-carrying mosquitoes in the face of a changing climate.

The majority of Hawaii’s dams trace their roots back to the sugar cane plantation days, but the industry has left the state. And so has the money to maintain them.

The county has said at least half a dozen homes were heavily damaged or destroyed in the flooding.

UPDATED: The state’s online dam inventory system lists the dam’s potential for hazard as “high.”

Cases at the correctional center are rising and the state health department has identified the situation as a cluster.