Poor Punaluʻu: Even before the Kaʻu District of the Big Island felt the terrible punch of Hurricane Lala on August 16, the small community living in the Black Sand Beach resort was plagued by the ongoing failures of Punaluʻu Water...
Intense rainfall that drenched the state during the first few months of this yeardevastated infrastructure, homes, farms, and waterways, forcing many to quickly deploy excavators to clear mud and debris and/or shore up eroded stream banks. Hawai`i Administrative Rules require...
On August 28, the state Board of Land and Natural Resources amended its January 9 decision authorizing the Department of Land and Natural Resources to hold public hearings on a 20-megawatt solar-hydrogen energy project proposed for 100 acres of state...
Board Advances Court-Ordered Contested Case On Revocable Permits for East Maui Diversions Following recent orders from the Environmental Court, the Board of Land and Natural Resources voted last month to authorize its chair to appoint a hearing officer and to...
Coco Palms in Court: This past summer, Utah-based Reef Capital Partners, which owners the former Coco Palms resort site in Wailua, Kauaʻi, secured $431 million in redevelopment financing. Whether that will be enough for the company to fulfill its plans...
“BLNR’s renewal decision for the 2026 RP must be reversed, because BLNR breached its public trust duties by (1) failing to render independent findings for the identification and protection of Native Hawaiian traditional and customary practices, and (2) failing to...
(Above chart credit: Petition to designate Kamaʻole aquifer system area.) Last year, when the Commission on Water Resource Management voted to accept a petition by the Honolulu Board of Water Supply to designate the Waiʻanae aquifer sector as a groundwater...
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,...
(Above photo: Ke Kīpuka o Kalaeuila.) Oceanfront acreage on O‘ahu’s North Shore! A rare opportunity to own over 170 acres of land fronting miles of white sand beach. This is one of the last beachfront tracks of land that has...
Cats’ Role in Dolphin Deaths: Robin Baird of the Cascadia Research Institute has published a brief report on the relationship between cat populations and the deaths of cetaceans, including false killer whales and dolphins, that inhabit the ocean around Hawaiʻi....