Kauaʻi will have to tap its reserve funds to help pay for damages from Lowell as state leaders seek major disaster declarations from the White House.

Radio is critical during disasters. Kauaʻi has again exposed that many stations lack generators and other equipment needed to stay on the air.

Roaring runoff from the hurricane wiped out a privately run water system serving about 100 homes. Should the utility have been better prepared?

Most of the pumps that deliver water from wells stopped working when the electricity was cut off. The county lacks emergency generators to run them all.

The suit alleges corrections officers at the state’s largest prison gave members of a prison gang access to an inmate in protective custody, who was then beaten.

Experts say some inmates at Hālawa don’t need to be in the restrictive setting of a medium-security prison, and the setting at Waiawa will be more therapeutic.

With two more storms developing, emergency workers are rushing to prepare.

A second body was discovered Tuesday. Local businesses remain battered and shuttered as people from around the Big Island step up to help.

The body of a Big Island woman who went missing after the storm was identified Tuesday.