Oct. 22—According to a 2018-19 assessment by the Hawai 'i Wildfire Management Organization, about 350 miles of landscape alteration statewide was needed to reduce high wildfire risk—a distance ...

Starfruit season officially runs from September to April with the most availability during the holidays. Though not always ...

This year West Hawaii has begun with less precipitation than we need to keep our landscapes healthy, so we again are aware of the importance to have well distributed rainfall. Planting shade trees in ...

Pineapple, plumeria and bird of paradise — people associate these iconic species with Hawaii, yet they aren’t Hawaiian. They’re foreign introductions, brought to these islands by people from other ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Closing out the year, over 90% of Hawaii's native flowering plants, are endemic to the state. If Hawaii loses them, they'd be gone forever. The plant extinction prevention ...

LAHAINA, Hawaii — There's heavy machinery — a large mower and excavator — parked in Gordon Firestein's neighborhood, just south of Lahaina. To him, they're symbols of hope. "This is very new," he says ...

A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a new reality for the normally lush island state just a few months after a devastating blaze on a neighboring island leveled an entire ...

Charlotte Yamane, 81, a former Kualoa Ranch employee, keeps her machete handy to eradicate invasive plants and trees throughout the property and elsewhere on the island. Yamane took down a tree in ...

SCHOFIELD BARRACKS, Hawaii — In the rugged embrace of the Waianae Mountains, a quiet victory unfolded on Monday as the U.S. Army Garrison Hawaii's Natural Resource Team took a stand for nature. With ...