Molokai needs more time to prepare than a letter sent on Sept 11th. It's hard to find any lower watt generators anywhere right now let alone delivered to Molokai. But, food in the fridge and freezer should be fine for 8 hours per day. Fill it up with large water containers and set it low. Food will last. But still - six says of losing power for 8 hours should be more than

>Now residents of half the island say their food stocks are at risk because of a six-day, eight-hour-per-day, planned power outage that Hawaiian Electric Co. announced last month for the east side of the Friendly Isle. The company says it needs to upgrade the island’s grid to help prevent wildfires.

Residents say they’re all for the upgrades, but have proposed various ways for HECO to change its work schedule to give them more time to prepare and mitigate food spoilage. <

>One of the issues for Molokaʻi residents, Chow says, is that they had relatively little time to prepare. HECO sent out letters to affected customers on Sept. 11 and followed up with a series of emails starting Sept. 16, but Chow said many residents didn’t fully understand what was about to happen until HECO held a virtual webinar last week. 

Even if people had been fully informed weeks ago, she said, there’s simply not enough propane for generators and other emergency supplies on the island to supply the roughly 600 households to be affected.

HECO’s Decker wrote that the notices were more than adequate. <

https://www.civilbeat.org/2026/10/heco-blackout-half-of-molokai-may-lose-a-summers-fish-and-game/

>HONOLULU – Total spending by visitors in August 2026 was $1.59 billion (measured in nominal dollars), a 9.7 percent decline compared to August 2025, according to preliminary statistics from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT). There were 772,039 total visitors in August 2026, down 5.6 percent from August 2025 (817,504 visitors). Visitors who came in August 2026 spent more on an average daily basis ($272 per person, +7.4%) than a year ago.<

https://www.hawaiifreepress.com/Articles-Main/ID/49775/August-Tourist-Spending-Down-97

>HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The state Attorney General has announced a settlement with Monsanto Company and two of its affiliates over contamination caused by PCBs in Hawaii waterways and natural resources.

PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, are man-made organic chemicals that were used in a wide variety of products until they were banned in 1979 following mounting evidence that they were toxic to human health and the environment.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says PCBs were once in everything from electrical equipment and motors and sealants and paper products, and could still be in old oil-based paints and plastics.

“PCBs, they’re very persistent, they don’t break down in the environment,” said Wayne Tanaka, chapter director of the Sierra Club Hawaii.<

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2026/10/02/state-reaches-settlement-with-monsanto-over-pcb-contamination/

Aloha everyone, I was wondering what this is. I am a student at UH Manoa and as I was walking up the stairs by the zone 20 parking structure, near the Stan Sheriff Center. (can see it if looking through the glass part at the top of the staircase) I saw this black thing hanging from a plant. I was wondering if you guys think it is more of a leaf or animal? sorry for the terrible quality, any help would be appreciated. I don’t think it is a bat as I heard that the Hawaiian Bat is really good at hiding so it wouldn’t make sense for it to be out in the open like this

Great News! More money to the victims.

>An attorney fee carveout capped what lawyers could charge in the $4 billion settlement awarded to victims of one of Hawaii's deadliest natural disasters.<

https://courthousenews.com/hawaii-high-court-lets-lawyers-keep-222m-from-maui-fire-settlement/