VIDEO: Hawaii Island designated primary natural disaster area
Big Island Video News
As a result, a classification of “extreme drought” persists in the South Kohala District and Pokakula Region of the Hamakua District. Increased rainfall has resulted in recent improvement from extreme drought in other areas, but the Ka'u and North Kona ...

Hawaii island and Kauai housing markets mostly flat
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
Median prices in both regions were up, as they also were in Hamakua, North Kohala and South Kona. But lower median prices in North Hilo, South Hilo, South Kohala and Kau dragged the island-wide median down slightly. Condominium sales on Hawaii island ...

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Hawai'i Drought Conditions Warrant Natural Disaster Designation
Maui Now
According to the National Weather Service, Extreme Drought conditions persists in the South Kohala and portions of the Hamakua District of Hawai'i Island. Hydrologist Kevin Kodama noted in a recent advisory that pastures and general vegetation over ...
Isle drought warrants natural disaster designationHawaii 24/7 (press release)

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19th Annual Waimea Cherry Blossom Heritage Festival
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
Ka Hui Kapa Apana O Waimea's Festival of Quilts: Show by six clubs: Sew N Sews of Waikoloa, Anuenue Quilters of North Hawaii, Mauna Kea Quilters, Laulima O Hamakua, Sew Fun After School and the host Ka Hui Kapa Apana. Show honors the late Nancy Donigan ...

Hawaii's largest dairy farm sold to Idaho farmer
Pacific Business News (blog)
The newspaper reports the dairy, whose products are sold under the brand name Hawaii's Fresh, has about 900 milking cows and operates on about 2000 acres of land leased from the statute in Ookala on the Hamakua Coast.

Big Island Geothermal Push Continues
Honolulu Civil Beat (blog)
Richard Ha, owner of Hamakua Farms and chair of Kuokoa, has attended four Peak Oil conferences and has been a big advocate on the Big Island for expanding geothermal energy. State legislators and the state energy office appear to be getting on board.

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New restaurant: The Grove in Kailua
HONOLULUMagazine.com
On another night: the grilled Hamakua mushroom salad, a generous portion of smoky mushrooms on greens with salty gorgonzola cutting through the sweet balsamic dressing and candied mac nuts. In ordering the paella, we felt like we were probably making a ...

Island's scattered sites make a museum mecca
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
... in rural Laupahoehoe is the former home of a train station agent, a curious remnant of the old railroad network that hauled heavy loads of plantation sugar over the creaking, towering bridges that spanned the deep gulches of the Hamakua Coast.

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Kaiser appoints Big Island clinic managers
Pacific Business News
White will manage Kaiser's Hilo and Waimea clinics and its mobile health vehicle. He joined Kaiser in 1993 as a clinic manager for the Kona, Waimea and Hilo clinics, and prior to that had served as industrial relations director for the Hamakua Sugar ...

BOE hears plea for Laupahoehoe charter school
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
"Although there are many naysayers at the present DOE school ... their views are not representative of the community as a whole," said Lucille Chung, a 1958 graduate of Laupahoehoe, on the Hamakua Coast, and chairwoman of the Interim Local School Board ...

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HSTA Sets Polling Schedule, Locations For Contract Ratification
KITV Honolulu
HILO CHAPTER • Hilo Intermediate Auditorium 3:00 – 5:30 pm • Kau High/Pahala Elem. Bandroom 2:30 – 5:30 pm • Keaau Middle Cafeteria 3:00 – 5:30 pm HAMAKUA CHAPTER • Honokaa High & Inter. Cafeteria 3:00 – 5:30 pm Kohala Chapter • Kohala High Library ...

The Royal County of Lahaina?
Maui News (blog)
It is easy to see the “old” northeastern sugar-port-government seat of Hilo and Hamakua Coast contrast with the “new” mega-hotel enclaves of South Kohala and Kona (the latter similar to a much more sprawling combined Kihei/Wailea/Kapalua, ...

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New Paauilo Store opens for business
Hawaii 24/7 (press release)
Sugar, once the economic heartbeat along this verdant Hamakua Coast, began transitioning in the early 1970s and Torao's son, Earl, transformed the business in 1972 with the opening of Earl's Snack Shop. Earl's sons, Mark and Miles and their families, ...