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The Kauaʻi County Council has passed a bill adding a 3% surcharge to the state’s hotel tax. The county expects revenue from the tax to replace the roughly $15 million Kauaʻi used to receive each year from its share of the state’s transient accommodation tax.
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A setback in collecting the new county hotel room tax, the state Attorney General’s office says the state tax office does not have the authority to collect the taxes for the individual counties. That puts the mayors in a fix now that the state hotel tax will not be distributed to county governments.
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The Conversation last week spoke with each of Hawaiʻi's county mayors to learn how the COVID-19 surge is affecting their communities and health care systems.
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Mayor of Kauaʻi Derek Kawakami shares the latest COVID-19 news from the Garden Isle.
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On Thursday, Kauaʻi moved into Tier 5 of its COVID-19 guidelines and ended its resort bubble program as the state's fully vaccinated rate neared 60%.
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Hawaiʻi Gov. David Ige said 60% of Hawaii's population will be fully vaccinated in two weeks, and some restrictions on travel and gatherings will be lifted.
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Kauai County will roll back Thursday to Tier 3 of its COVID-19 business and recreational guidelines due to a surge in new cases over the past two weeks,…
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PRINCEVILLE — In his first trip off Oahu in over a year because of the pandemic, Gov. David Ige toured a landslide that cut off several communities on the…
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LIHUE — As the coronavirus ravaged other parts of the U.S., residents of Kaua?i watched safely from afar.Kaua?i, one of the world’s most sought-after…
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In recent weeks, we've talked with Hawai'i?s county mayors on HPR's The Conversation about the issues and concerns they are confronting on O?ahu and the…