A Kilauea organization is leading a coalition of community groups in an effort to raise funds to purchase the Hawaiian burial ground at Naue point in Wainiha, a press release issued Tuesday states.
The effort has been seeded with a $75,000 pledge from an anonymous donor, according to Keone Kealoha, executive director of Malama Kaua‘i, a [...]

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Trespassing charges are dropped in the case that stemmed from a burial protest
Kauai police brought charges this week against a Kauai journalist for trespassing during a protest last month against construction of a house on a site containing Hawaiian burials.
But when Joan Conrow showed up at KPD headquarters to be arrested Wednesday night, Kauai Police [...]

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The State Historic Preservation Division failed to follow state law regarding Native Hawaiian burials in a Kaua’i beachfront houselot where 30 sets of human remains were found, Fifth Circuit Judge Kathleen Watanabe ruled this afternoon.
The agency must now consult with the Kaua’i-Ni’ihau Island Burial Council, any lineal descendants of the remains, interested Hawaiian organizations, and [...]

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Foreclosure filings in Hawaii soared more than 130 percent in August when compared to the same month in 2007, led by a sharp increase in filings on Kauai.
Still, the actual number of filings remains relatively low. There were 336 foreclosure filings, up from 145 in August 2007.
In Hawaii last month, there was one foreclosure for [...]

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The Kaua‘i Police Department confirmed yesterday that three men present at an Aug. 7 protest of development on a Hawaiian burial ground were arrested last week on suspicion of second-degree trespassing, a petty misdemeanor.
Arrests had been delayed as police worked to identify those that had been on the Ha‘ena property. Kaua‘i Police Chief Darryl Perry [...]

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North shore lot known to have 30 graves; plans call for building a home
Within Joseph Brescia’s 15,667-square-foot beachfront house lot on Kaua’i’s north shore are 30 known burials of pre-Western-contact Native Hawaiians.
To Kaua’i residents Jeff Chandler, PuaNani Rogers and numerous other Native Hawaiians and others following the case, that constitutes a cemetery.
The proper action for [...]

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