Many years ago, Presley Wann would accompany his uncle as he went fishing along the north shore of Kaua’i, Hawaii. He watched his uncle dive for lobster, catch kala with his handmade net and hand-pry […]
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Hawaii May Not Be The Paradise It Appears To Be
There’s trouble in paradise. Hawaii currently has the country’s highest rate of homelessness per capita. With nearly 500 people per every 100,000 residents homeless, the island state has more displaced people than New York and […]
San Francisco Rent Is So Outrageous It’s Cheaper To Commute From Hawaii
One software engineer for the online storage company Dropbox in San Francisco is saving money on rent by living in Hawaii. Aleksei Gribov moved to the Bay Area from Russia about two years ago, and […]
Hawaii Becomes First State In The Nation To Ban Plastic Bags
Hawaii is continuing to lead the nation in public interest initiatives as just banning the sale of plastic bags not even one month after the island state banned smoking in all public places. The move […]
Surge In Number Of Homeless Has Hawaiian Officials Puzzled
HILO, Hawaii — The exterior tropical paradise image of Hawaii Island has an ugly underbelly of a rapidly increasing homeless population. Yet state officials remain puzzled by the increase. State figures show that Hawaii Island’s […]
Hawaii Makes History As First State To Raise Smoking Age To 21
In what surely should have been done years ago, Hawaii became the first state in the union to raise the legal smoking age statewide to 21, after its governor signed the bill into law on […]
Hawaii Votes To Use 100% Renewable Energy… By 2045
In a symbolic first for a U.S. state, lawmakers in Hawaii passed legislation last week, by a 74-2 vote, requiring the state to generate 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy. Yet it won’t […]
Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Puts On Rare Lava Show
The lake of lava at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano has been rising over the past week and, sometimes, overflowing in a spectacular show. Janet Babb, a lead geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, […]