Chalk one up for the state. A big one. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has shredded the takings claims of Bridge ‘Aina Le‘a, LLC, over the state Land Use Commission’s decision in 2011 to … Continued
Last month, Hawai‘i County asked the state Land Use Commission (LUC) to rule that transient vacation rentals aren’t allowed in farm dwellings within the state Agricultural District. In November 2018, the county adopted Bill 108, which regulates short-term vacation rentals on … Continued
At its February 14 meeting, the Board of Land and Natural Resources continued to levy fines against landowners in Kona who had been using their houses in the Conservation District as vacation rentals. The board fined Sheri Parish-Hamilton, who owns a beachfront … Continued
Last November, Wailuku Water Company (WWC) president Avery Chumbley told the Commission on Water Resource Management that his company doesn’t have enough money to make the kinds of improvements needed to better control the water flowing through the irrigation system he operates. … Continued
For years, Wailuku Water Company (WWC) has been trying to get Maui County to take over its irrigation system. Maui mayors have repeatedly included in their proposed budgets $9.5 million to purchase the company’s lands and infrastructure, but the County … Continued
Delay in ‘Ohi‘a Rust Rule: Last August, after many years of delay, the state Department of Agriculture finally approved rules to ban the importation of plants in the Myrtaceae family from other states, in hopes of protecting ohi‘a from a devastating rust. … Continued
“Infectious disease is going to have a larger impact than terrorism on our future,” Lieutenant Governor Josh Green said in his introductory remarks to the 6th International Workshop on Angiostrongylus and Angiostrongyliasis, held last month in Hilo. In his official capacity, Green … Continued
(This article has been updated to correct Dr. Alfred Mina’s first name.) In Hawai‘i, it would seem, dogs have received better treatment for rat lungworm disease than humans. For several years, Dr. Alfred Mina, a veterinarian in Hilo, has been … Continued
In the normal life cycle of rat lungworm (Angiostrongylus cantonensis), snails and slugs eat rat feces that contain the first-stage lungworm larvae. Thoselarvae develop to the third stage in the snails. When rats eat the snails, the larvae develop into adults … Continued