A long-held state policy to ignore grave markers cemented to the rocks along the shoreline of the Wai'anae Coast isn't sitting well in Hawai'i Kai. More »

WAIPAHU, Hawaii — The Waipahu community swimming pool reopened yesterday, four years after it was closed because shifting soil buckled the pool deck and damaged pipes. The city spent $2.2 million to shore up the deck by installing steel piles under it. More »

In old Hawai'i, more than 40 different varieties of sugar cane, saccharum officinarum, or ko, were propagated. The cultivars planted by commercial sugar cane producers were the result of breeding hybrids that exhibited millable, high-yielding, disease-resistant canes. Unfortunately, this hybridization process resulted in the loss of many of the unique, heirloom ko that previously graced our 'aina. More »