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Kauai County forged a similar partnership with the vacation rental platform Vrbo last week. The deals are expected to help the county to enforce vacation rental rules.

Operators of a luxury resort hotel under renovation decided to give its used furnishings away to a number of nonprofits.

The partnership between the county and the travel platform is expected to help oust illegal listings from the Vrbo website.

Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami’s decisive handling of the COVID-19 pandemic — and the Garden Isle’s relatively low disease infection count — has won him praise locally and statewide.

The plan to test travelers twice with a six-day quarantine in a designated hotel would apply to returning residents as well.

EPA is targeting hundreds of the largest disposal pits but Hawaii has about 88,000 cesspools still in use.

In a letter to Kauai Mayor Derek Kawakami, Grove Farm President and CEO Warren Haruki said he is disappointed that the original vision for the facility “was not given a chance to succeed.”

An adult male resident received a positive test result for COVID-19 on Thursday, according to Kauai health officials.

The state is seeking a $650,000 federal grant to set up a pilot program for using medication-assisted treatment to address drug dependency in corrections facilities statewide.

Kauai’s police chief is encouraging officers to attend protests and have candid conversations with citizens — and each other.