HONOLULU (AP) - Hawaii's last sugar plantation is getting out of the sugar-growing business, signaling the end of an industry that once powered the local economy and lured thousands of immigrants to ...
HONOLULU (AP) -- The owners of Hawaii's last sugar plantation say they're getting out of the sugar-growing business. Miles of sugar cane fields once spread across the islands, providing work to ...
From 1919, when Kaua‘i’s Hawaiian Sugar Co., aka Makaweli Plantation, first published the “Makaweli Plantation News,” Hawai‘i’s original sugar plantation newspaper until 1983, when the Waialua Sugar ...
PAIA, Maui >> The dusty sidewalks of Paia are mostly empty these days and there’s parking galore, an eerie sight in the former plantation town that survived the demise of the sugar industry by ...
A newspaper headline and photo show the arrival of the Molokans in Hawaii. The Hawaiian Star via Library of Congress On Feb. 19, 1906, the mail steamer China pulled into the harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii ...
HONOLULU (KITV) — Over the past week, Hawaii residents have been showing their support for Ukraine, with some folks having close ties to people in Ukraine. Hawaii’s ties to Ukrainians actually date ...
Hawaiian sugar growers have long been in an uncomfortably tight box. Their per-acre yields make them the most efficient producers in the world, but their high labor costs and long sea haul to market ...
Fermin Domingo, 61, climbs up the side of a sugar cane hauler for the last time. The haul truck driver has worked at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar (HC&S) company for the past 40 years, harvesting and ...