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
On May 8, the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands will request that the Board of Land and Natural Resources approve a settlement agreement for a violation case brought on April 26, 2024, regarding … Continued
On October 31, 2023, architect Tonia Moy emailed Jessica Puff and Mary Kodama of the State Historic Preservation Division’s architecture branch, introducing them to Sushil Garg, the new owner of lands that included the historic Marconi Wireless Telegraph Station on … Continued
The state is one step closer to turning a parcel in Wahiawā that has long been a public health and safety concern into a new substation for the Department of Land and Natural Resources’ Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement. … 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
Groups Ask Court to Declare Prohibition On East Maui Water Lease to Private Party “Climate change and variability in weather patterns makes it impossible for [the Board of Land and Natural Resources] to guarantee that anyone will be able to … Continued
If the state does not acquire the system as a whole, basically it’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t,” the Land Division’s acting assistant administrator Lauren Yasaka told the state Board of Land and Natural Resources at … Continued
On March 2, Ryan Kanakaʻole, acting chair of the state Commission on Water Resource Management, did what members of the public clamored for him to do at the commission’s meeting last month: He rescinded an August 21 email then-commission chair … Continued
Above photo: Honokōhau Stream below Aotaki Weir. Credit: CWRM At its February 24 meeting, the state Commission on Water Resource Management directed Honokōhau ditch owner Maui Land and Pineapple Company to pay for a new U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge … Continued