Kaʻū News Briefs Aug. 14, 2024
Site plan for Pahala Town Square and Hawaiian Springs Facility with retail and parking for tour buses and the vehicles of visitors and workers, along with a giant roundabout, spring water fountain,...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 15, 2024
Saturday's range fire in Ka Lae shut down South Point Road and vehicles south of the firewere escorted by first responders out of the area. Photo by Bob MartinA FIRE ALONG SOUTH POINT ROAD drew first...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 16, 2024
One of the last harvests of Kaʻū Sugar Co's cane, from the film Kaʻū Sugar: A Town Remembers,The film will be shown this Sunday at Pahala Community Center. Photo by Franco Salmoiraghi. THE PUBLIC IS...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 17, 2024
NPS Photo of the exterior of the one-story Kīlauea Visitor Center and its large sign next to a four-paned window. The last After Dark in the Park until Park renovations are complete is this Tuesday....
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 18, 2024
Kaʻū Community Development Plan Action Committee testimony did not receive enough votes to send it to Windward Planning Commission on Aug. 14. It will go to further discussion and possible interaction...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 19, 2024
Liz Kaue in front helps Kamamalu Kaue learn more about her heritage at the display of the Pāhala Multicultural Society, accompanied by cofounder Darlyne Vierra at right and Tia Smith, left. Photo by...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 20, 2024
TWO DISTURBANCES SOUTHEAST OF THE ISLANDS ARE EXPECTED TO MERGE OVER TUESDAY NIGHT. NOAA's Central Pacific Hurricane Center reported at 8 p.m. that approximately 1350 miles east-southeast of the...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 21, 2024
Lines and crowding at Hawai'i Volcanoes has led to recommendations to visit early and late. NPS PhotoWITH MUCH TRAFFIC AT HAWAI'I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK, the staff is recommending going there before...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 22, 2024
TROPICAL STORM HONE WAS NOT NAMED HECTOR because she made it to the Central Pacific before becoming a Tropical Storm on Thursday. Central Pacific Hurricane Center issued a Tropical Storm Watch for...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 23, 2024
.TROPICAL STORM HONE WAS located about 380 miles east-southeast of Hilo at 7:45 p.m. Friday, moving west around 16 mph. Note that the wind map shows that the earliest tropical-storm-force winds could...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 24, 2024
Tropical Storm Hone chugged along a path south of Hawai'i Island on Saturday, sending steadyrain and bands of rain onto the island overnight. Photo from NOAATHE WORST IS YET TO COME were the...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 25, 2024
Hurricane Hone waters pass by Wong Yuen Store in Wai‘ōhinu on Sunday morning. Photo by Geneveve FyvieNO SCHOOL AT NĀ’ĀLEHU ELEMENTARY, KAʻŪ HIGH & PĀHALA ELEMENTARY on Monday, following the arrival...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 26, 2024
This house that gained fame years ago as the Hobbit House bed and breakfast was hit by a river of mud and rocks during Hurricane Hone. Now a beekeeper's home, it is located on Ha'ao Springs Road in...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 27, 2024
Jacob Satterwhite in his home near Ha'ao Springs. Hurricane Hone'sintrusion brought mud and rocks into the house. Photo by Mariah SatterwhiteTHE HOBBIT HOUSE FAMILY is digging out from the flood that...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 28, 2024
Thermal Hotspot area near Puhimau Crater on Chain of Craters Road, which has reopened after period of seismicity. NPS Photo by Janice WeiCHAIN OF CRATERS ROAD and other previously closed roads are now...
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KA'U LADIES VOLLEYBALL CONTINUED ITS WINNING STREAK TO THREE STRAIGHT GAMES. On Thursday, the Trojans bested Ka Umeke in three sets, 25-10, 25-12 and 25-14. McKenzie Dacoito came up with 6 Kills and...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Aug. 30, 2024
Ash rises above Halema‘uma‘u within Kīlauea's summit caldera in this May 27, 2018, telephoto image from near Volcano House Hotel in Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park. USGS photoISLAND OF HAWAI'I...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Sept.1, 2024
East Hawai'i Health Clinic staff with the Go Malama slogan shared their services at the annual health fairin Pahala Saturday. Left to right are Donna Kekoa, Heather Kali'ikoa and Ben Lawler. Photo by...
View ArticleKaʻū News Briefs Sept. 2, 2024
Mazie Hirono, who represents Kaʻū and all of Hawai'i in the U.S. Senate, visited hotel workerson strike on Labor Day. Photo from Hirono ON LABOR DAY, MAZIE HIRONO, who represents Kaʻū and all of...
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