The Associated Press is reporting that four environmental groups say they plan to sue the St. Regis Princeville Resort here on Kaua’i if the hotel doesn’t take action to prevent ongoing deaths of rare native seabirds.
The groups Wednesday said the hotel has failed to dim artificial lights and lower window shades to protect the birds, [...]

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Karen Meyer, the owner of Bali Hai Photo Company, has been in business on the ground floor of Ching Young Village Shopping Center in the heart of Hanalei for 16 years. Meyer adapted to the diminishing demand for film several years ago by providing services for photographers using digital cameras, and creating new artwork of [...]

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Briant Construction has been awarded the contract to upgrade and expand Kauai County’s wastewater treatment plant in Waimea.
The Kauai-based company, the construction subsidiary of Aqua Engineers, Inc. of Lawai, will use a design-build approach to the project, which will allow the plant to remain operational throughout the two-year construction period.
The project, which will use photovoltaic [...]

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Image Credit: George and Sandy
By The Garden Island
The county’s opportunity to blaze a trail forward on the eyesore that is the former Coco Palms resort may have passed many months ago when permit extensions were granted to the current owners, but Kauaians got two stark reminders in recent weeks of what could have been.
First, as [...]

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