For years, the Hawai`i Belt Road in South Kona has been the bane of drivers in a hurry. It is narrow and winding and provides few opportunities for overtaking slower-moving traffic. Since the late 1980s, the state Department of Transportation … Continued
DLNR Refuses to Require Public Hearing on Private Park The private park along the cliffs at the Big Island’s Puakea Bay, adjoining the huge white stucco mansion of George and Shirley Isaacs, was built in the middle-1980s without benefit of … Continued
The Hawaiian irrigation projects, though they are so far away and function so smoothly that few ever think of them, are the most remarkable and permanent change that man has wrought in the islands. If on some ultimate judgment day … Continued
The Ko`olau range is one of two extinct volcanoes that make up the island of O`ahu. Most of the rock in the Ko`olau mountains is porous — a`a and pahoehoe lava flows, volcanic clinkers and breccia — but throughout much … Continued
On September 19, 1912, at 3:45 p.m., the Board of Public Lands of the Territory of Hawai`i met at the office of board member R.H. Trent in Honolulu. According to minutes, the meeting had been called “to consider the question … Continued
One year ago, Environment Hawai`i reported on the interim storage of spent nuclear fuel from dismantled Navy reactors at Pearl Harbor and other sites around the country. Recently, the Department of Energy released a draft environmental impact statement covering the … Continued
After two years of no commercial lobster fishing in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration were hopeful that stocks had recovered enough to allow a normal season this year. But in early August, the … Continued
Diversified agriculture is a term that has enjoyed renewed popularity in recent months. As more and more acres of plantation lands are being pulled out of sugar production and, to a lesser extent, pineapple cultivation, the idea of replacing these … Continued
The Special Management Area permit issued for the seawall fronting the Sugar Cove condominiums imposed 12 conditions upon the applicant. A review of the documents in files at the Planning Department and the Department of Public Works indicates that several … Continued