A demonstration project to grow pongamia on old Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. land in the Maalaea/north Kihei area could get underway in mid-May, an Alexander & Baldwin official said. The tree ...

Seeing a cane fire up close at night is a powerful ... Over the history of sugar in Hawaii, plantations have been largely a man’s world. At the Puunene factory, two of the most important jobs ...

For a century, sugarcane was the biggest industry in Hawai‘i. But as sugar began to decline in the mid-20th century, tourism became the central pillar of the local economy. Plantations and mills ...

“I’m going to miss it all the way around, just with the cane fields being ... like Maui’s sugar plantation, is the last of its kind. A HAWAIIAN HYBRID From a distance, the Moku Pahu looks ...

The sugar plantation plant was burning up to ... the plant for more than 400 Clean Air Act violations. Hawaii Commercial & Sugar closed in January 2017 due to the high cost of processing the cane ...

In 1875, Hawaiian cane sugar was allowed to be exported to the United States; Spreckels spotted an opportunity. He established a vast Maui sugar plantation; he built a company town, Spreckelsville ...

That’s precisely what I learned on a recent trip to Hawaii ... That’s when plantation owners, keen to take advantage of the growing sugar cane business, began to import contract workers ...

The Kapaia Foundation on Thursday announced the availability of a $1,000 academic scholarship to a graduating high school senior who demonstrates qualities passed on from Hawaii’s sugar plantation era ...