Kaumakani News

A tourist and a Kaua'i man were killed and three others injured yesterday in a three-vehicle accident that shut down Kuhio Highway on the Garden Island for nearly nine hours.

Two men died yesterday morning and three others were injured in a crash near the Wailua Golf Course on Kauai involving a big-rig truck, a rental car and a motorcycle.

A memorial ceremony for two Hawaiian monk seals who were shot to death earlier this year will be held tomorrow at Poipu Beach Park on Kauai.

The Surfrider Foundation's Kauai chapter is offering a reward -- as yet unspecified -- for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the shooting death of two Hawaiian monk seals on Kauai.

The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation, Inc. has awarded a Waimea High School senior one of its top three scholarship awards.

Federal officials suspect humans caused the death of a 4-year-old monk seal on Kauai and have opened an investigation.

The West Kauai United Methodist Church in Kaumakani is Kauai's latest burglary victim after recent break-ins at the Kauai Food Bank and the Salvation Army.

HANAPEPE, Kaua'i - This west Kaua'i town was blasted yesterday by high wind that may have been a tornado, while the rest of the Garden Island got a soaking and numerous mudslides, downed trees and road closures ...

The National Weather Service in Honolulu has issued a tornado warning for the island of Kauai until 1:15 p.m. At 12:34 p.m. radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado 7 miles ...

The storm that prompted the tornado warning Saturday afternoon for Kaua'i has weakened, but a flash flood warning was extended until 8 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.