Naka Nathaniel: Hawaii’s Ag System Needs An Overhaul To Promote Food Independence
The state has evolved from a plantation system into another extractive economy: Tourism and luxury homes.
Hawaii’s Last Dairy Is Under Fire For Allegedly Violating Environmental Law
The Center for Food Safety says that Cloverleaf Dairy on the Big Island has been knowingly polluting the ocean with animal and milk waste for years.
3,152 Burned Vehicles Have Been Removed From Lahaina, But More Than 350 Remain
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provided an update on debris removal, which also included 141 boats.
Maui Fire Report Heightens Fears That Manoa Development Will Increase Risk There
The home builder says 93 new homes — and 360 parking stalls — will actually mean less traffic in a densely populated corner of the valley.
Cooper administration initiative to aid the formerly incarcerated touted at DHHS event
North Carolina DHHS Kody Kinsley (fourth from the right) alongside members of the NC FIT staff (Photo: Ahmed Jallow) Anthony Ferrera gets emotional when he talks about how the FIT…
Here are all the measures that will appear on Denver ballots in 2024
The Denver City and County Building is seen across Civic Center Park from the Colorado Capitol on Aug. 26, 2024. (Quentin Young/Colorado Newsline) It’s a record year for direct democracy…
Tossed medicine, delayed housing: How homeless sweeps are thwarting Medicaid’s goals
Andrew Douglass, who is homeless and lives on the streets of San Francisco, gathers his belongings as the San Francisco Police Department orders him to move off the sidewalk, where…
Health and farmworker advocates urge ban of herbicide linked to Parkinson’s
A farmer harvests corn near Slater, Iowa on Oct. 17, 2020.(Perry Beeman/Iowa Capital Dispatch) WASHINGTON — Public health advocates and farmworkers called for a federal ban on a toxic herbicide…
New Orleans offers help to doctors fearful of new drug law; Murrill says ‘problem doesn’t exist’
Getty Images NEW ORLEANS — As more health care providers come forward with concerns about a new Louisiana law reclassifying life-saving medication as a controlled dangerous substance, city officials in…
Louisiana adds boards and commissions, even as some haven’t met for several years
(Wesley Muller/Louisiana Illuminator) An annual review of boards, commissions and other state-created oversight entities shows Louisiana added eight such bodies since the previous fiscal year, despite calls from some circles…