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1. Article · Sep 14, 2026 · Colleen Uechi

   Damaging storms and other issues discussed at Hawaiʻi State Association of Counties conference | Big Island Now (opens the original)

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   KĀ‘ANAPALI — After Hurricane Lowell pummeled Kaua‘i, Luke Evslin spent the week cooking up Costco-sized portions of bacon and sharing meals with his neighbors as they tried to eat all the food in their fridges after the power went out. Restaurants gave away food for free. Strangers left a cooler full of ice packs on the side of the road. “Literally not a single complaint. Truly it was everybody just asking how they can help,” Evslin, a Democratic state representative for Kaua‘i’s

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2. Article · Aug 8, 2026 · Colleen Uechi

   3 years after Lahaina fire, survivors continue to deal with heartbreak and hope as recovery continues | Big Island Now (opens the original)

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   LAHAINA — Every morning at 6 a.m., Luz Bernabe would call Happy Nicolas to check in on her and her kids. Nicolas especially knew to expect a call if she’d been absent from church. “Aunty Luz is very close to my heart. She’s like my second mom,” Nicolas said. But for the past three years, Nicolas’ mornings have been sadly silent, after Bernabe was one of at least 102 people to perish in the Aug. 8, 2023 wildfire that ripped through Lahaina town. As Maui marks the three-year anniversar

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3. Article · Aug 8, 2026 · Colleen Uechi

   Some say voting in Office of Hawaiian Affairs races is everyone’s kuleana, but who should vote? | Big Island Now (opens the original)

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   In the 14 years that Carmen “Hulu” Lindsey has served as Maui’s trustee for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, she has often noticed the hundreds of thousands of blank votes that pile up in OHA races. “We’re not happy about it, but it is what it is,” Lindsey said. “You cannot force people to vote for a category that they don’t want to vote for.” In the 2024 general election, for example, there were more blank votes than votes cast for the winning candidate in two of the three OHA

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