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Former Las Vegas Captain Adapts To New World As Kauai Police Chief Allan Parachini/Civil Beat

Former Las Vegas Captain Adapts To New World As Kauai Police Chief

Todd Raybuck commanded one of nine patrol divisions packed into a single city. Now he oversees a short-staffed department, and it can get lonely out there.

Kauai Plays A Growing Role Testing Technology For Tomorrow’s Nuclear Weapons Mike Bejarano and Mark Olona/Sandia National Laboratories

Kauai Plays A Growing Role Testing Technology For Tomorrow’s Nuclear Weapons

With little fanfare, experimental missiles are being launched at the Kauai Test Facility to test technologies being considered for future weapons programs.

Kauai: As Crowds Grow, Tourists Will Start Paying to Visit The Most Popular Parks Allan Parachini/Civil Beat

Kauai: As Crowds Grow, Tourists Will Start Paying to Visit The Most Popular Parks

The Department of Land and Natural Resources also hopes to cut in half the number of daily visitors to Haena State Park and its famed beaches and trails.

Kauai: Can $13 Million Save Lihue? Allan Parachini/Civil Beat

Kauai: Can $13 Million Save Lihue?

A federal grant to reconfigure roads in the core of this island’s county seat could spur enough private investment to bring back the good times.

Kauai: More Trouble For Hanalei As Unstable Hillside Forces Traffic Delays Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Kauai: More Trouble For Hanalei As Unstable Hillside Forces Traffic Delays

Only one lane of the Kuhio Highway will be open on the stretch approaching the North Shore community for months.

Kauai Gets A Residential Drug Treatment Facility For First Time In Decades Kauai County

Kauai Gets A Residential Drug Treatment Facility For First Time In Decades

The eight-bedroom Adolescent Treatment and Healing Center in Kapaia was first proposed in 2003.

Kauai: This Island’s Only Bookstore Is Thriving Allan Parachini/Civil Beat

Kauai: This Island’s Only Bookstore Is Thriving

Small independent bookstores can survive despite today’s proclivity toward digital downloads and a giant online retailer.

Tracking The Feral Cats That Kill Kauai’s Endangered Seabirds DLNR

Tracking The Feral Cats That Kill Kauai’s Endangered Seabirds

Researchers are using satellite collars and other new tools to improve efforts to identify, isolate and dispose of the cats that pose the biggest risk.

Safety Concerns Prompt Stalled Re-Opening Of Kauai Road Courtesy of Kauai County

Safety Concerns Prompt Stalled Re-Opening Of Kauai Road

More than a year after an epic flood devastated Kauai’s north shore, public access to the two-mile stretch of Kuhio Highway is still not restored.

Flood-Ravaged Botanical Garden Set To Reopen On Kauai Contributed by National Tropical Botanical Garden

Flood-Ravaged Botanical Garden Set To Reopen On Kauai

Limahuli Garden & Preserve is home to dozens of endangered plants and birds found nowhere else on earth.