Power restoration nears completion on Hawaii Island after Hurricane Lala
Hawaiian Electric has restored power to Kaʻū Hospital and reduced outages to roughly 600 customers, though some isolated pockets remain without service. Recovery efforts are continuing more than a week after the storm.
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Why it matters
Restoration of critical hospital power marks a major improvement, while remaining outages show recovery is not yet complete.
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- What you need to know about Hurricane Lala recovery: Kaʻū High & Pāhala Elementary to reopen next week; power returned to customers in Pāhala : Big Island Now ↗bigislandnow.com · Recorded source date: Aug 27, 2026, 7:47 PM UTC
- Power restored to Ka'ū Hospital more than a week after Hurricane Lala struck Big Island : Big Island Now ↗bigislandnow.com · Recorded source date: Aug 28, 2026, 12:46 AM UTC
- HECO works to restore power to the last 'pocket outages' on Hawaiʻi Island ↗hawaiipublicradio.org · Recorded source date: Aug 28, 2026, 1:16 AM UTC
- Over 1K remain without power on Hawaii Island; HECO restores power to Kau Hospital ↗hawaiinewsnow.com · Recorded source date: Aug 28, 2026, 3:47 AM UTC
- What you need to know about Hurricane Lala recovery: Hawaiian Electric reports only about 600 Big Island customers remain without power : Big Island Now ↗bigislandnow.com · Recorded source date: Aug 28, 2026, 5:47 AM UTC
- What you need to know about Hurricane Lala recovery: Hawaiian Electric continues to make strides in power restoration efforts : Big Island Now ↗bigislandnow.com · Recorded source date: Aug 28, 2026, 3:02 PM UTC
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