A focal point for hurricanes, tsunamis, landslides and floods, Kauai's remote north shore will soon have a new facility to help government agencies and community groups coordinate disaster response.
Ever since the most distant stretch of the Kuhio Highway reopened, a group has been detaining nonlocal vehicles and passing out inaccurate parking information.
Kauai has tightened requirements for shoreline development, but they don't take into account more alarming recent predictions of the impact of climate change and rising seas.
Kee Beach, once nearly loved to death by tourists, is now a place of solitude after last spring's punishing storms cut it off from the rest of the island.