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The state announced victory in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit brought by Nevada developer DW Aina Leʻa Development, LLC, surrounding the Villages at Aina Leʻa project in Waikōloa on Feb. 13.

Lawrence and Lorna Keeler and their family moved from Oregon to Alaska in June 1948 and began building a new life for themselves

On Aug. 3, 1948, Lawrence and Lorna made their official move from Kenai to Anchor Point aboard a vessel called the John Adams

Lawrence and Lorna Keeler and their family moved from Oregon to Alaska in June 1948 and began building a new life for themselves

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Lawrence and Lorna Keeler, along with their three children and Lawrence’s older brother Floyd, left Oregon on June 3, 1948, and began driving to what would become their new home on the southern Kenai Peninsula. By late June, Lawrence and Lorna were in Kenai, working in a cannery to earn enough money to afford transportation to the Anchor River.

During the 2021 Mana Road fire in Waikōloa, some residents made an emergency exit down a one-lane backroad off Hulu Street. With the recent Lāhainā wildfire tragedy, residents are wondering if the makeshift evacuation route is enough to keep local residents safe and alive.

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: As former U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens famously explained, more than 30 years ago, about the Supreme Court’s takings cases: “Even the wisest of lawyers would have to acknowledge great uncertainty about the scope of this Court’s takings jurisprudence.” Nollan v. California Coastal Comm’n, 483 U.S. 825, 866 (1987) (dissenting opinion). The Court has done little since then to establish any clear, bright line rul...

ADVERTISEMENT Supreme Court Wont Hear Standardless Land Zoning Case Law360 (February 22, 2021, 7:41 PM EST) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to tackle a Hawaiian real estate companys appeal for rezoning logistical clarifications, which Justice Clarence Thomas dissented against for leaving unresolved how to rule when altered regulations render certain businesses noncompliant. Hawaiian real estate company Bridge Aina Lea LLC had asked the high court to clarify standards for recoverin...

The U.S. Supreme Court. (Courthouse News photo/Jack Rodgers) WASHINGTON (CN) — Justice Clarence Thomas decried the state of Fifth Amendment land-taking precedent in a brief dissent Monday after the Supreme Court refused to hear a Hawaii zoning dispute. “Our current regulatory takings jurisprudence leaves much to be desired,” the conservative justice wrote, arguing the fight between Hawaii’s Land Use Commission and developer Bridge Aina Le’a LLC would have given the high court the chan...