The proposal for O`oma Beachside Village calls for development in three general areas. Closest to Queen Ka`ahumanu highway is a mauka “village,” including a mix of housing types (small lot, multi-family, and live-in retail units) and a commercial center. The … Continued
DLNR Staff Backs Off Proposal to Extend Lease in Palila Habitat “Do we have to watch extinction happen all over again? Do we have a choice?” University of Hawai`i zoologist Sheila Conant wrote last month in her testimony against a … Continued
Mangroves Get a Champion: Sydney Ross Singer, the hero of waiawi and defender of coqui, has found another invasive species to champion: the red mangrove. In February, Singer brought suit against the state Department of Land and Natural Resources, the County … Continued
Since the early 1990s, Maui County has been aware of a probable connection between the wastewater it injects into the ground below the Lahaina sewage treatment plant and the nearby coastal waters. And for almost as long, it has clung … Continued
Kilakila `o Haleakala, the group that is opposed to the construction of the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) near the summit of Haleakala, was dealt a setback when the Intermediate Court of Appeals, in a ruling issued June 9, upheld … Continued
Steve Holmes, once a member of the Honolulu City Council representing Windward O`ahu and now a resident of Kona, is threatening to take Hawai`i County to federal court over the operation of its Kealakehe sewage treatment plant. Like the Lahaina … Continued
The Hawai`i Supreme Court will hear the appeal of a variance granted by the City and County of Honolulu to allow Kyo-ya Hotels & Resorts to build a high-rise wing of the Moana Surfrider hotel, a Waikiki icon. The Surfrider … Continued
He’s back. Scott Watson, the bad boy of Big Island builders, is trying a new approach to gain Hawai`i County’s approval of his planned “Pepe`ekeo Palace” on a coastal lot a few miles north of Hilo. Watson and the partnership … Continued
Laney, Morita Contest Land Board Ruling On Their Vacation Rentals in Hanalei When the state Board of Land and Natural Resources met May 24 to decide how to deal with the unauthorized construction of two cabins in the Conservation District … Continued
In 2010, a Maui driver suffered permanent brain injury in an accident caused, in part, by overgrown vegetation along the Hana Highway near Paia. He sued both the driver of the vehicle that hit him and the state of Hawai`i … Continued