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Ka‘ū News Brief Saturday, March 31, 2018
Destruction caused by the 1868 great Kaʻū earthquake included the Waiʻōhinu Congregational Church. With a magnitude estimated at 7.9, the earthquake was the largest in Hawaii's recorded history. Photo...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Sunday, April 1, 2018
Egg hunt around the flagpole this morning at Kaʻū Military Camp parade ground. The Easter event was open tolocals and visitors. Photo by Eric DeJesusA VACATION RENTAL ADVOCACY GROUP URGES OWNERS TO...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Monday, April 2, 2018
Learn about the conservation practices, successes and challenges, of restoring the dry forests with Division of Forestry and Wildlife Pu‘uwa‘awa‘a Coordinator Elliot Parsons Tuesday, April 10, at...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Billy Kenoi, who is known in Kaʻū for bringing department heads out to the country to meet the people when he served two terms as mayor, is receiving many messages from those wishing him well with his...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Wednesday, April 4, 2018
View from the top of the ladder at South Point, where a woman was stuck then rescued on Monday.See story, below. Photo from highwaysandblueskys.comTHE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MURDER OF MARTIN...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Thursday, April 5, 2018
Endemic and endangered Hawaiian Crow, the ʻAlalā, shown here in the wild at a supplemental food hopper. The scale - facing away from the camera - helps Project members monitor the birds' weight, which...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Friday, April 6, 2018
The late Sen. Dan Akaka, who died today, became the first recipient of the Aloha Award of Merit in 2013, congratulated by then-Gov. Neil Abercrombie. See story below. Photo by Shane TegardenBRENDA FORD...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Saturday, April 7, 2018
As visitors and halau hula members during Merrie Monarch week travel to the edge of Halemaʻumaʻu Crater, an ash plume rises on Friday, showing what some see as two faces of Madame Pele, one dark, one...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Sunday, April 8, 2018
The strong people of Ka‘ū were celebrated last night at Merrie Monarch with Hālau Kekuaokalāʻauʻalaʻiliahi taking second place overall in the Kane division, dancing to the Mary Pukui song Ka‘ū Nui....
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Ka‘ū News Brief Tuesday, April 10, 2018
A fish collector scoops up fish in Hawaiian waters to sell to the aquarium industry. Input is requested by DLNR to decide whether to end a moratorium on new and renewing permits for aquarium fish...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Sen. Brian Schatz grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during Senate hearings. See CNBCTHE $25 MILLION BILL TO FUND SPINLAUNCH passed third reading in the state Senate Tuesday, with all three Senators...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Thursday, April 12, 2018
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard visited Syria and met with women whose husbands were dead or away fighting, sometimeson different sides of the battles. She concluded that there is no win for Syrian people through...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Friday, April 13, 2018
"Captain Mark" Jeffers of Kauaʻi's Storybook Theatre Hawaiʻi, with his inflatable tiger shark, interacts with and teaches students about the marine animal. Jeffers visits Pāhala Elementary, giving his...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Saturday, April 14, 2018
Mauna Loa's Moku-A-Weo-Weo caldera sketch from Lt. Wilke's journal of this 1840 expedition. See Volcano Watch below. Art by Afred T. AkateRESPONSE TO THE PREDAWN MILITARY STRIKE ON SYRIAN chemical...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Sunday, April 15, 2018
Valerie Gali urges residents to Hoʻolohe - Listen, then ask questions about SpinLaunch. She receives a round of applause in the middle of residents who were overwhelmingly against locating a space...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Monday, April 16, 2018
Wastewater engineer Michelle Sorensen (left) shows preliminary plans for the Nāʻālehu wastewater treatment plant to community members. Photo by Julia NealOPPOSITION TO LOCATING A WASTEWATER TREATMENT...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Storybook Theatre's Shark was a classroom within the old Pāhala Gym today. "Captain" Mark is seen here, with keiki, mimicking a shark fin.See story below. Photo by Julia NealABANDONING PLANS FOR A...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Wednesday, April 18, 2018
Last Night at HalemaʻumaʻuLast Night at Halemaʻumaʻu, at about 7:30 p.m., with lava bubbling about 34 feet below the rim of the crater in Kīlauea Volcano. Scientists report increased pressure in the...
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Ka‘ū News Brief Thursday, April 19, 2018
The reign of the 2017 Miss Kaʻū Coffee Court (above) will be transferred to the 2018 winners this Saturday during the Miss Kaʻū Coffee Pageant at Kaʻū District Gym. The pageant is the opener to the...
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