Food industry officials say the Hawaii Superferry should resume its runs to Kauai. 
They say the shutdown of Aloha Airlines cargo services underscores the need for the ferry alternative to ship goods to and from the Garden Island. 
Love Bakery President Mike Walters says his shipment of bakery goods to Kauai had to go from Oahu via [...]

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Rugged and waterproof cameras are great, but they’ve got a lot of improving to do in general design before they’ll be good in the outdoors. I mean, someone just keep me from losing these things.
The first waterproof camera I used was a Pentax W10 in 2006, one of the first simple cams that didn’t need [...]

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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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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 Ag Moratorium Bill was killed at Wednesday’s Council meeting by way of Council Member Rapozo making a motion “to receive” and Kouchi seconding immediately (vote tally below).
How the Public Testified
Every person to testify during the public comment period was IN SUPPORT of the temporary moratorium bill. A council member later stated that there were [...]

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This winter’s candlelight vigils and banner-waving protesters are gone, their legal challenges exhausted. Soon, bulldozers could roll past Koloa’s wooden sidewalks, clucking chickens and stop sign plastered with a “Die Developers Die” bumper sticker, ready to transform a ragtag grove of monkeypod trees into a shopping center.
But here in Hawaii’s oldest sugar plantation town, little [...]

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