Kauaʻi,anglicized as Kauai,is geologically the second-oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands. With an area of 562.3 square miles,it is the fourth-largest of the islands and the 21st-largest island in the United States. Nicknamed the Garden Isle,Kauaʻi lies 73 miles across the Kauaʻi Channel,northwest of Oʻahu. It is the site of Waimea Canyon State Park and the Na Pali Coast State Park.
Kauaʻi County is a county in the U.S. state of Hawaiʻi. It consists of the islands of Kauaʻi,Niʻihau,Lehua,and Kaʻula. As of the 2020 Census the population was 73,298. The county seat is Līhuʻe.
Hanalei is a census-designated place (CDP) in Kauaʻi County,Hawaii,United States. The population was estimated at 299 as of 2019. Hanalei means "lei making" in Hawaiian. Alternatively,the name Hanalei also means "crescent bay" and may be indicative of the shape of Hanalei Bay. Hanalei can also be translated as lei valley,referring to the rainbows that color the valley and encircle Hanalei like a wreath.
Jeremy Harris is an American politician who served as Mayor of Honolulu,Hawaii from 1994 to 2004. A biologist by training,Harris started his political career as a delegate to the 1978 Hawaiʻi State Constitutional Convention. While Harris served as chief executive of the City &County of Honolulu,the city was named "America's Greatest City" by the official American governance journal,Governing Magazine. Harris is the founder of the China-U.S. Conference of Mayors and Business Leaders and the Japan-American Conference of Mayors and Chamber of Commerce Presidents. He lives in Kalihi Valley on the island of O'ahu.
Maryanne Winona Kusaka is an American politician,educator and former Mayor of the County of Kaua'i. She was mayor of Kauai from 1994 to 2002. A career Republican,Kusaka sought a seat in the Hawai'i State Senate in 2004 but lost to the Democratic Party's Gary Hooser by 16,274 votes to 8,270.
The Hawaii State Department of Education (HIDOE) is a statewide public education system in the United States. The school district can be thought of as analogous to the school districts of other cities and communities in the United States,but in some manners can also be thought of as analogous to the state education agencies of other states. As the official state education agency,the Hawaiʻi State Department of Education oversees all 258 public schools and 37 charter schools and over 13,000 teachers in the State of Hawaiʻi,serving approximately 167,649 students statewide.
Bryan J. Baptiste was an American politician and member of the Republican Party. He served as mayor of the County of Kauai in Hawaii from 2002 until his death.
The Mayor of Kauaʻi is the chief executive officer of the County of Kauaʻi in the state of Hawaiʻi. The mayor has municipal jurisdiction over the islands of Kauaʻi and Ni’ihau. Derek Kawakami was elected on November 6,2018,as the mayor of Kauaʻi over JoAnn A. Yukimura,who was Kauaʻi's mayor from 1988 to 1992,with 15,857 votes out of 40,323 registered voters in the County of Kauaʻi. The Mayor of Kauaʻi is the successor of the Royal Governors of Kauaʻi of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Pā'ula'ula State Historical Park is a National Historic Landmark and is administered as the Pā'ula'ula State Historical Park just southeast of present-day Waimea on the island of Kauaʻi in Hawaiʻi. It is located at the site of the former Fort Elizavety,the last remaining Russian fort on the Hawaiian islands,built in the early 19th century by the Russian-American Company as the result of an alliance with High Chief Kaumualiʻi. The star fort was employed by the Kingdom of Hawaii in the 19th century under the name Fort Hipo.
Kapaʻa is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kauaʻi County,Hawaiʻi,United States. It is the most populous town in the island of Kauai,with a population of 11,652 as of the 2020 census,up from 9,471 at the 2000 census.
Gary L. Hooser is an American politician who served as a member of the Hawaii State Senate representing Kauaʻi and Niʻihau from 2002 to 2010. He also served on the Kauaʻi County Council for four years before becoming a Senator.
Kauaʻi High School is a public high school in Lihue,Hawaii. It is named after the island Kauaʻi and is part of the Hawaii Department of Education.
Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC) is an electric cooperative located on the island of Kauaʻi in Hawaiʻi. With roughly 35,000 member-owners represented by a nine-member board of directors,it is the only electric cooperative in the state of Hawaii.
Bill "Kaipo" Asing is an American politician in the US state of Hawaii. Asing served as the acting mayor of Kauai from July 17,2008,until December 1,2008,following the death of former Mayor Bryan J. Baptiste.
The Puʻuʻōpae Bridge is a one-lane,single-span,concrete-encased steel bridge across Kalama Stream located along Puʻuʻōpae Road between Kalama and Kīpapa Roads in the Wailua Homesteads area near Kapaʻa in Kauaʻi,Hawaiʻi,United States. Originally built in 1915,it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
The Kauaʻi Bus is the public transportation service of Kauaʻi County,Hawaiʻi. They operate nine regular local bus routes.
Ronald Dan Kouchi is a Democratic politician from Hawaii,representing the 8th district in the state Senate. He has served as the 14th President of the Hawaiʻi Senate since 2015.
Derek S.K. Kawakami is an American politician serving as the eleventh Mayor of Kauai since December 3,2018. Kawakami previously served as a Kauai County Councilmember from 2016-2018 and 2008-2011 and as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives from April 4,2011 through November 8,2016. Kawakami was appointed by Governor Neil Abercrombie to fill the vacancy caused by the appointment of Hermina Morita to chair the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission. Kawakami is a member of the Democratic Party.
Rosalie Enos Lyons Keliʻinoi was a Portuguese-Native Hawaiian politician of the Territory of Hawaii. In 1925,she became the first woman elected to the Hawaii Territorial Legislature,representing the island of Kauai.
The 2022 Hawaii gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the next governor of Hawaii. Incumbent Democratic Governor David Ige was term-limited and ineligible to run for a third term. Incumbent lieutenant governor Josh Green was the Democratic nominee,and faced former lieutenant governor Duke Aiona,the Republican nominee. This marked the third time Aiona had been the Republican gubernatorial nominee,having previously run unsuccessfully in 2010 and 2014. Green won the election with 63.2% of the vote with Aiona receiving 36.8% of the vote.
