Vacation Rentals on Ag Land: The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court has issued its decision in a long-festering dispute over vacation rentals of houses built in the state Agricultural land use district. They’re not allowed, the court ruled, upholding the finding of … Continued
Forefeiture: Six acres of Kona land acquired by disgraced former Hawaiʻi County housing staffer Alan Rudo and his three associates through the use of affordable housing credits acquired by deceit are now being offered for sale. The asking price is … Continued
FKW Trigger Lowered: The National Marine Fisheries Service has reduced the level of observer coverage in the deep-set longline fishery of Hawaiʻi. And as the level of observer coverage is lowered, so, too, is the number of false killer whales … Continued
Mosquito Case: Environmental Court hearings on Tina Lia’s and Hawaiʻi Unites’s motion for a preliminary injunction to halt a mosquito-suppression project in East Maui are on hold due to the fires that devastated Maui last month. An initial hearing was … Continued
Awards: Environment Hawaiʻi editor Patricia Tummons’ pieces on affordable housing, published in 2022, won two awards in the All Media category of the Society of Professional Journalists, Hawaiʻi Chapter, annual contest. The winners were announced at an awards dinner on … Continued
More ʻAina Leʻa Delays: A year ago, the 38-acre parcel on which ʻAina Leʻa had begun to build the first of nearly 400 units of “affordable housing” was sold at a foreclosure auction to Romspen Investment Corporation, one of the … Continued
Koaiʻa Sanctuary: The Department of Land and Natural Resources has applied to Hawaiʻi County to subdivide a large parcel of land now leased to Parker Ranch in order to extend a sanctuary for Acacia koaiʻa, the smaller cousin of the … Continued
ʻAina Leʻa Update: Last August, 38 acres of ʻAina Leʻa land were sold off at a foreclosure auction to a Canadian lender, Romspen Investment Corporation. The parcel is the site where several buildings that were to be part of an … Continued
‘Dr. Bob’ Remembered: Professor Emeritus Robert A. Kinzie III passed away unexpectedly on December 31st, 2022, while he and his wife, Joy, were visiting their sons and grandchildren in Southern California. Dr. Bob was a faculty member in the Zoology … Continued
Cliff Sheds, Price Soars: A coastal house in Hilo had to be partly demolished a few years ago, when county inspectors deemed it unsafe. The house, perched atop a cliff near Honoliʻi, had begun to slide into the ocean. Debris … Continued