A quasi-judicial hearing over a Kilauea property owner’s plan to build an upscale house on environmentally sensitive coastal land started with an all-day session yesterday at the Mo‘ikeha Building.
County Planning Commission Chair Steven Weinstein presided over the contested case, expected to resume April 1, acting as a judge while attorneys questioned witnesses ranging from building [...]

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Following 15 months since it last inspected the Ka Loko Reservoir Dam, the state is waiting until next Friday to decide whether its engineers will conduct a second structural assessment.
The last time the Department of Land and Natural Resources inspected the dam was Oct. 10, 2006, when state engineers conducted phase I of its post-breach [...]

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On March 19, one of the most important bills in recent history regarding the native people of Hawaii will come before our legislature. This bill proposes to place a ban on any genetic cultivation or experimentation of taro for 10 years.
PHOTOS OF HANALEI TARO
Taro has served as a source of sustenance and a staple to [...]

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The Kauai Garden Island Newspaper provided a pre-forum set of questions to all candidates participating in The Garden Island’s forum.
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Gay & Robinson Inc., which plans to build Hawaii’s first ethanol plant, is hopeful that its financial and logistical stumbling blocks are now behind it, but there remains a level of tension at the company as it moves ahead with plans to shift from producing sugar to distilling fuel.
Several difficult issues remain in launching [...]

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Hawaii’s verdant volcanic peaks and crystalline waters have made tourism the state’s biggest industry. But not all Hawaii residents are thrilled by the millions who flock to their shores.
They complain that some of the visitors renting homes and rooms in their residential neighborhoods create noise, drive up home and rental prices and destroy the sense [...]

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The Kaua‘i doctor charged with distributing a controlled substance outside of professional medical practice is negotiating with the Alabama U.S. Attorney’s Office but hasn’t pleaded guilty, he said yesterday.

Claiming he is a well-intentioned physician being mischaracterized by the government, Dr. Harold Spear III, of Hanapepe, admitted he consulted with patients suffering from pain across state [...]

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As part of a suit filed in May 2007 by several conservation groups, an injunction was issued Friday by a Hawaii federal district judge over the U.S. Navy’s use of active sonar that he recognized as harmful to whales. Judge David A. Ezra stated that the evidence presented by the Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and [...]

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The County Planning Commission left Moloa‘a Bay Ranch no choice this week but to recant its effort to keep illegally installed property improvements on environmentally sensitive Eastside land.
“We have tried to meet the concerns of the community, Planning Commission and the Planning Department in every way possible for the past seven years while still trying [...]

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A doctor accused of prescribing pain narcotics to patients he never met will plead guilty to a charge that arose from an Internet pharmacy in Alabama, the U.S. Attorney’s Office there announced yesterday.
Dr. Harold C. Spear III, charged with prescribing hydrocodone pain pills over the Internet, insisted yesterday that his business is legitimate and that [...]

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