From The Garden Island:

Kauai Planning Commission wants to set administrative rules for TVR permit renewals 

Twelve percent of transient vacation rentals on file on Kauai have appealed a denial for a permit-renewal.

Currently, 10 percent of the island’s TVR inventory is assigned to a contested case hearing, and this number could increase as more appeals are sent to a hearings officer. Read more.

And here’s the latest in other neighbor isle gov’t and politics:

Hundreds ‘taking root’ at Poipu ulu festival

Two airlifted to safety on Lanai

Three eyeing possible bids to take back Maui Council seats

Looking at Lydgate

A passion for learning at HPA

Man drowns at ‘Tunnels’

DHHL sets Maui County meetings

Choy looking to open Maui restaurant

Lihue opening to culminate 12 years of work by YWCA

Waste, energy plant proposal to come before Maui Council shortly

Molokai AARP to tour  Ka Honua Momona fishpond

Kilauea resident says he was exposed to pesticide

Waimea flights to Maui, Honolulu start

MECO official: First we need to establish cable’s feasibility

Photo: Princeville Hotel. (pdxjeff)

—Chad Blair