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Kaʻū News Briefs April 16, 2024
More than a week of events will fill the Kaʻū Coffee Festival June 1-8, including farm tours. Photo from Kaʻū Coffee Festival THE FOURTEENTH KAʻŪ COFFEE FESTIVAL EVENTS ARE OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED. They...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 17, 2024
Buck Spenser won the art contest for the game bird stamp. He featured the Melanastic blue pheasant.WINNERS OF THE THE GAME BIRD AND HAWAI'I WILDLIFE CONSERVATION STAMP ART CONTEST are announced for...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 18, 2024
Kaunāmano between Honua'apo and Nāʻālehu was seen in this real estate listing for $11.5 million in 2015 but has been conserved and is the subject of a community input stewardship meeting this Saturday...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 19, 2024
A USGS team visited a webcam at Kīlauea Crater to maintain it on Thursday. Photo by K. Anderson/USGSNEW TECHNOLOGY FOR OLD QUESTIONS is the focus of this week's Volcano Watch— Magnetics, magma, and...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 20, 2024
Local residents were invited to Kamehameha School's Kahuku Ranch on Saturday to participate in communityinput for a stewardship plan for the 1,368 acres at Kaunāmano on the Kaʻū Coast. Photo by Julia...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 21, 2024
The plan by Black Sand Beach, LLC for Punalu'u as published in SFGate on Sunday.THE UPCOMING HEARING ON THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AT PUNALU'U DREW A STORY IN SFGATE on Sunday.The story in the San...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 22, 2024
April is Tsunami Awareness Month. In November 1975, Hawai`i's largest locally generated tsunami in the 20th and 21st centuries hit the Kaʻū Coast, wrecking this house at Punalu`u. USGS Photo by David...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 23, 2024
THE STORY OF BERTA MIRANDA'S ESCAPE FROM THE EL SALVADOR CIVIL WAR to Kaʻū and the creation of the successful family Miranda's Kaʻū Coffee farms is the subject of a new film. It is called Massacres to...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 24, 2024
Science and nature taught in the Hawaiian language are the focus of new teaching tools developedby University of Hawai'i Hale Kuamo'o Hawaiian Language Center and Hawai'i Conservation Alliance.Photo...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 25, 2024
The drying of māmaki leaves for Shaka Tea, which had its start with māmaki from Wood Valley. See www.shakatea.com. Photo from Shaka Tea Hawai'iSee www.shakatea.com,SHAKA TEA HAWAI'I, WITH ITS ROOTS IN...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 26, 2024
Geologist and GIS analyst Mike Zoeller of USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. Photo from University of Hawai'iA NEW ERUPTION MAP IS THE PRODUCT OF HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY. This week's Volcano Watch...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 27, 2024
Kaʻū's member of the state House of Representatives Jeanne Kapela held a Keep Kaʻū Country sign on Saturday with other protesters of the proposed Punalu'u development plan that goes to public hearing...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 28, 2024
Keep Kaʻū CountryNationally published illustrator John Inserra, who lives in Kaʻū and works internationally, released this depiction of folks whovow to Keep Ka'u Country. Proponents and opponents of...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 29, 2024
Kīlauea Crater seen from an overlook near Volcano House. With a rise in the number of earthquakes, Chain of Craters Road is closed from the intersection at Crater Rim Drive. NPS PhotoWITH THE INCREASE...
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Kaʻū News Briefs April 30, 2024
Bolo, who helped compose the song Kaiholena, will be featured with The Jazz Gardeners, dancers from Halau Hula O Leonalaniand Aloha Latinos and other entertainment at the opening of Kaʻū Coffee Fest...
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Kaʻū News Briefs May 1, 2024
Headed for states are Trojans Boys Volleyball Head Coach Josh Ortega, senior Chaz La'a Kajiwara-Ke, freshman Emil Soriano, sophomore Cy Zeiah Silva-Kamei, junior Vladimir Fedoruk, senior Tyson Junior...
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Kaʻū News Briefs May 2, 2024
This map depicts recent unrest at Kīlauea volcano. Yellow circles mark the locations of approximately 1,600 earthquakes that have occurred between April 27 and May 2, 2024, as the upper East Rift Zone...
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Kaʻū News Briefs May 3, 2024
The website punaluublacksandbeach.com includes a map showing proposed Open Market & Restaurantaway from the Black Sand Beach, as the request for a Special Management Area permit goesto a public...
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Kaʻū News Briefs May 4, 2024
Protesters held signs along Hwy. 11 Saturday in advance of the public hearing on new development proposed for Punalu'u in a Special Management Area designed to protect resources near the ocean. Photo...
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Kaʻū News Briefs May 5, 2024
Black Sand Beach, LLC's plan for Punalu'u, with residences, accommodations, a Wellness Center, tennis, golf, retail and some of the old infrastructure restored. Image from Black Sand Beach,...
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