The Hawai`i Supreme Court agreed last month to hear arguments on whether the University of Hawai`i should have prepared a full environmental impact statement for its Haleakala High Altitude Observatory Site master plan — a plan the state Department of … Continued
Land Board Approves Controversial Lease For Temporary Homeless Facility at Sand Island If the city is going to soon start shooing the homeless out of Waikiki anyway, what’s the harm in giving them a place to go? That seemed, in … Continued
No one saw it coming. Not the Hawai`i County Planning Department, which had given its blessing to the 7,500-square-foot house being built by Scott Watson and his partner, mainland attorney Gary Olimpia, on the Pepe`ekeo coast a few miles north … Continued
Even though Hawai`i is the nation’s leader in solar power use per capita, no one here — not customers, not state legislators, and certainly not the solar industry — seems happy with the way the Hawaiian Electric companies have recently … Continued
Kealakehe Pilikia: The County of Hawai`i is facing mounting pressure to stop its practice of dumping treated effluent from the Kealakehe sewage treatment plant into a disposal pit near the Kona coast. As reported in the July issue of Environment … Continued
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has directed the Western Pacific Fishery Management Council (Wespac) to investigate the extent to which federal grant funds might have been misused by council staff members involved in preparing the pending petition to remove … Continued
Former North Shore Convalescent Home May Soon Shelter Sex Trafficking Victims It was a difficult choice: Provide a home for a few dozen underage sex trafficking victims or a campus for a new intermediate school for as many as 200 … Continued
For the more than a year, Douglas Meller has been complaining to the state Department of Land and Natural Resources about the dozens – and sometimes hundreds – of unoccupied beach chairs he regularly sees on the beaches fronting Fort … Continued
By the time it reached Hawai`i island, Hurricane Iselle was barely hanging on to its status as a hurricane, with maximum sustained winds of 74 miles per hour. And yet it managed to turn large swaths of the rural district … Continued
Dibromochloropropane was invented in Hawai`i, and it continued to be used on pineapple fields in the state for years after the Environmental Protection Agency banned it elsewhere in the United States. Despite that, there seems to have been just one … Continued