A Kauai company has been awarded a $229-million contract to take over the government-owned sewer systems on U.S. Army bases on Oahu and run them for the next 50 years.
Under a contract signed this week, Aqua Engineers, Inc. of Kalaheo will take over wastewater installations at Fort Shafter, Aliamanu Military Reservation, Fort DeRussy, Tripler Army [...]

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Kauai’s economy to see little growth
Kauai’s economy may creep to a halt this year as a “triple whammy” hits Hawaii, with two cruise ships leaving the interisland market, the demise of Aloha and ATA airlines and a surge in oil prices sending tourism into a slump.
The Garden Isle may see little or no economic growth [...]

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The firm allegedly misused pesticides at its research facility
The federal Environmental Protection Agency fined Vector Tobacco Inc. $65,040 for allegedly misusing six pesticides and then failing to keep workers from getting sick, the EPA announced yesterday.
Vector Tobacco, a subsidiary of Vector Tobacco Group of Durham, N.C., has since moved out of the state, agricultural officials [...]

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The number of August visitors to Hawaii plummeted 17.4 percent in the wake of the nation’s financial crisis, mortgage meltdown and escalating oil prices.
The visitor count fell to 608,392 last month. The biggest decline was in the U.S. West segment, which plummeted 24.2 percent in the wake of a mortgage crisis that has hit California [...]

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Case Involves Kauai Businessman Who Admitted Swindling Investors
Professional surfer Andy Irons of Kauai is being sued by a mainland investor. 
The investor claimed the former world champion had some part in him being defrauded out of $20 million. 
The case involves Kauai businessman James Lull, who was convicted of a money scheme earlier this week.
The trustee for [...]

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A Honolulu Federal Court yesterday struck down claims against AOL co-founder Steve Case relating to his December 2000 buyout of Kauai plantation Grove Farm Co.U.S. District Judge Robert Jones found that the Hawaii-born Case didn’t engage in any federal security wrongdoing relating to a suit filed in 2005 by a group of former Grove Farm shareholders. [...]

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