Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono (D-Hawaii) today announced a $215,880 USDA Rural Development grant to help make Kauai Habitat for Humanity’s (KHH) next set of new homes environmentally sustainable and affordable.
This grant is part of the federal High Energy Cost Grant Program that provides financial assistance for the improvement of energy generation, transmission, and distribution facilities [...]

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Homes sales on the Big Island and Kauai followed the same pattern as Oahu — registering a significant drop in May.
Big Isle home sales dropped to 100 from 162, a 38.3 percent drop from a year ago in May, according to the latest statistics from Hawaii Information Service.
This was despite an 11.5 percent drop in [...]

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After the last Kaua‘i Island Burial Council meeting on April 3, Kapa‘a resident Ka‘iulani Huff was so upset, she grabbed a tent and headed to the North Shore.
At the meeting, the council voted 4-2 that the 30 burials discovered on Wainiha landowner Joseph Brescia’s property last year must all be left in place in order [...]

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The number of home sales on Kauai last month was fewer than half those sold in April 2007.
There were only 19 single-family homes sold in April, 56 percent fewer than the same month in 2007, according to statistics released Monday by Hawaii Information Service.
There were only 14 condominium units sold last month, a 53 percent [...]

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The second hearing in two months concerning a Kilauea landowner’s contested plans to build an upscale home on coastal land featured a full day of testimony without a Planning Commission decision in sight.
The commission is reviewing permits requested by California resident Charles Somers to develop two homes and a barn on 35,000 square feet of [...]

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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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