“This is crazy. It’s a crazy amount of money. It’s like $2 million dollars.” Wendy Gady, executive director of the state Agribusiness Development Corporation, was describing the legal charges her agency had already incurred and those it was likely to … Continued
(Above photo: Kevin Minoli. Credit: Alston & Bird) In November 2024, members of the board of the state Agribusiness Development Corporation were advised by Ben Berridge of Stantec GS, Inc., that complying with permit conditions of a draft National Pollutant … Continued
(Above photo: From the state’s contract with Alston & Bird.) Environment Hawaiʻi received detailed breakdowns of invoices submitted by the law firm of Alston & Bird to the Agribusiness Development Corporation. Here’s what we learned: The first invoice, dated July … Continued
Two years ago, Wayne and Tara Hu beat a lawsuit filed against them by companies owned by the developer of an agricultural condominium project at Marconi Point on O‘ahu’s North Shore. The companies had sued them after the couple’s attorney,...
The first time the presence of coconut rhinoceros beetles on the island of Hawaiʻi was detected occurred in October 2023. In the stump of a decaying palm tree, residents of Waikoloa found six suspicious larvae, which the Department of Agriculture...
June, the last month of the state’s fiscal year, is probably the busiest month of the year for contracting as state agencies rush to encumber funds rather than face the prospect of seeing them lapse back into the general fund....
Above photo: Deputy DAB director Dean Matsukawa, DAB director Sharon Hurd, and DAB legislative liaison Cedric Gates meet with Rep. Mike Gabbard in this photo from April 2025. Credit: Gabbard Instagram Until Cedric Gates ran for state Senate in 2024, … Continued
Whether short-term vacation rentals can exist on land in the state Agricultural District seemed for a while a question that the Supreme Court had decided once and for all back in September 2024. That month, the high court issued a … Continued
CNMI-ning: Last month, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management moved forward with plans to open up to seafloor mining more than 69 million acres offshore of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam. The action was part … Continued
In a letter to the Public Utilities Commission on March 25, Douglas Codiga, attorney for the Wailuku Water Company, reported that the recent severe storms so severely damaged its irrigation and water delivery systems that the company is on the … Continued