From The Garden Island:

The Hawaii Department of Health has received $75,000 to begin testing for pesticides in streams and waterways throughout the state.

DOH Toxicologist Dr. Barbara Brooks said Thursday that Kauai will receive its share.

The study comes in the wake of House Concurrent Resolution 129, co-introduced in March by Reps. Dee Morikawa, Jimmy Tokioka and Derek Kawakami — which called for DOH Director Loretta Fuddy to head up a task force to study the effects of atrazine. Read more.

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

SAT scores on rise

Hanalei woman’s remains identified

Hualalai development advances

Long-delayed Maui Waena Intermediate School addition coming

Protecting iwi kupuna on Molokai

PTA opening areas to hunters this weekend

Hookele Street extension opens

Kahoma Stream Bridge construction wins civil engineering award

Old Kahului Railroad Building to house DOT Harbors Office

Photo: A Syngenta worker keeps an eye out for birds in a crop field on the west side of Kauai. (Nick Grube/Civil Beat)

—Chad Blair