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Nov 23, 2024 |
kauainownews.com | Emma Grunwald
Environmental activists testified during a public meeting last week in Kekaha that Kauaʻi Shrimp, the island’s only shrimp farm, should not be issued a new pollutant discharge permit due to concerns about its effluent polluting waters and killing fish. No decisions were made during the Nov. 13 meeting held by the State Department of Health’s Clean Water Branch.
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Nov 22, 2024 |
bigislandnow.com | Emma Grunwald
Community November 22, 2024, 7:52 PM HST * Updated November 22, 7:53 PM Both lanes of a portion of Queen Ka’ahumanu Highway (Highway 19), north of Kona airport, are closed due to a traffic incident. The closure is near the 84 mile marker on the highway, the Hawaii Police Department said in an announcement sent out at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23. The department says motorists can use Kaiminani Drive to Highway 190 (upper road) and Waikoloa Road to travel between Waimea/Waikoloa and Kona.
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Nov 16, 2024 |
kauainownews.com | Emma Grunwald
A wastewater project that uncovered human burials during a propertyʻs septic installation in Wainiha remains on hold while state agencies continue to investigate. Controversy began last month when Native Hawaiian community members protested at the property at 4400 Oneone Road in Wainiha due to concerns of potential desecration of iwi kupuna (ancestral remains).
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Nov 15, 2024 |
kauainownews.com | Emma Grunwald
The next Kaua’i County Council will have two new members, with the election last week of former council member Arryl Kaneshiro, who works for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s Kauaʻi compound, and first-time office holder Fern Ānuenue Holland, the fair and sustainable food systems director for the Hawaiʻi Alliance for Progressive Action. Incumbents Ross Kagawa and Billy DeCosta were voted off the 7-member council.
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Nov 11, 2024 |
bigislandnow.com | Emma Grunwald
Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle feeding damage. Photo Credit: Hawaiʻi Department of AgricultureThe Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture has opened three requests for proposals to assist in the control and management of invasive pests, including the coconut rhinoceros beetle, little fire ants and two-lined spittle bug. The State Legislature and Gov. Josh Green authorized funding for the invasive species control project through the Biosecurity Act 231.
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