“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....
Above map credit: Trust for Public Land We had a chance to buy it in 1983 for $6 million. … We got a second bite at the apple. We gotta do this,” David Smith said last month of a proposal...
“My career has spanned quite a while. In that time, I have seen the weather patterns change so dramatically, it takes all the historic data and throws it away, because it’s just no prediction for tomorrow. A great example of … Continued
Rudo Statement: Alan Rudo, the former Hawaiʻi County employee at the heart of a scheme to profit from the sale of housing credits, was scheduled to be sentenced in federal court on May 28. In anticipation, he has submitted to … Continued
Last October, U.S. District Judge Jill A. Otake granted a motion by the City & County of Honolulu and its Department of Planning and Permitting for summary judgment on a complaint brought in May 2023 by companies owned by the … Continued
Facing fines of more than $3.1 million, the landowner who paid for the unauthorized clearing of coastal vegetation — including endangered Hawaiian yellow-faced bee habitat —at Marconi Point in October 2023 has tried to shift the blame onto his contractor. … Continued