Local News
Small biofuel farm bears fruit
If the vision of father and son farmers Christian and James Twigg-Smith becomes reality, acres of now-fallow sugar cane land will be growing crops again. But rather than producing food, the land would be used to grow fuel oil.
Midwives a reborn option
Laura Souza was expecting her first baby last fall when Kaiser Permanente Hawaii rolled out a new program offering trained midwives as an option to doctors for labor and delivery.
'Smart phone' tags to track monk seals
Marine scientists in Hawaii are equipping Hawaiian monk seals with a cell phone-like device to track where the seals have been and what they have been doing.
House hopefuls to debate issues
A public debate between three candidates vying for the 1st Congressional District seat recently vacated by Neil Abercrombie will be held next Monday.
