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Beetle battle

By CHLOE JONES Honolulu Star-Advertiser Every other day inside a lab on the third floor of the St. John Plant Science Laboratory building on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, doctoral student Kristen Gaines opens up a refrigerator full of beetle larvae, hoping to find them dead. “When I see a dead one, it’s still pretty gratifying,” she said. Gaines is a research assistant investigating a virus to kill the coconut rhinoceros beetle, also referred to as CRB, which is decimating…Read more

Council resolution urges ban on aquarium fishing

By JOHN BURNETT Hawaii Tribune-Herald A resolution urging a ban on the taking of ornamental fish for aquariums received a 9-0 vote Tuesday by the County Council’s Committee on Government Operations and External Affairs, which forwarded the measure to the full council with a positive recommendation. Resolution 422-25,introduced by council Chairman Holeka Inaba and Ka’u Councilwoman Michelle Galimba, urges the state Legislature “to prohibit the harvesting of aquatic life from state marine…Read more

DHHL homebuyers in limbo with mortgage financing

Spike in demand surprises state agency issuing 1% loans By ANDREW GOMES Honolulu Star-Advertiser An expanding pipeline of Native Hawaiian homestead development has led to a bottleneck serving lower-income households trying to buy new homes using federally funded low-interest loans. The state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands recently informed a state legislative committee that it is in a bind over a surge in demand for such loans that is outstripping its capacity to supply the special mortgages…Read more

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