Kohler’s Whistling Straits and the Princeville Resort’s Prince course in Kauai are infamously known as two of the toughest resort courses in America.
I’ve had the pleasure to get sliced and diced on each in the last year.
They are similar in a lot of categories. They’re both magnificent, one-of-a-kind courses, but stressfully scenic, if you know [...]

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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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After more than 25 years of delay, the use of a 75-acre agricultural park in Kilauea will be determined by stakeholders with the help of county-hired Kimura International, an O‘ahu-based firm.
The project gained ground when acreage in the Crater Hill area was transferred to the county in the fall of 2006. The donation of the [...]

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Feds sentence Mike Smith; Curt Smith awaits February court date for same cocaine-dealing charges
Former Hanapepe resident and surf magazine cofounder Mike Smith has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in a federal prison, federal authorities said yesterday.
Mike and his brother, Curt Smith, were indicted by a grand jury in June for attempting to traffic roughly [...]

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The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has issued a tsunami advisory for Hawaii following a powerful earthquake today in Peru.
A tsunami advisory is the third highest level of tsunami alert. Advisories are issued to coastal populations within areas not currently in either warning or watch status when a tsunami warning has been issued for another region [...]

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The Kaua’i Visitors Bureau announces that several of the golf and resort properties in its golf-destination co-operative – Kaua‘i: Discover Golf’s Ultimate Island Green – have been voted onto Golf Digest Magazine’s biennial ranking of the “75 Best Golf Resorts in North America.”
Princeville at Hanalei – home to 45 golf holes designed by Robert Trent [...]

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