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 ...

PUUNENE – Plantation workers said they knew the end of sugar operations was inevitable, but they didn’t expect it to be so soon and were caught off-guard by Alexander & Baldwin’s announcement ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sep. 4—Hawaii's Plantation Village, an historic outdoor museum in Waipahu honoring the lives of sugar plantation workers, celebrates its 30th anniversary Sept. 10. Hawaii's Plantation Village, an ...

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 ...

The catastrophic fire that just ravaged more than 2,000 acres and at least 2,000 homes on Maui, and claimed 114 lives and counting is inextricably linked to the island’s agricultural history. Expand ...

Best health record in the world is that of the 87,000 workers on the plantations of the Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association. Their infant-mortality rate, prime index of health status, was only 16 ...