After decades of colonial resource extraction, Dole Plantation is sticking the public with the cost of fixing its aging Wahiawā dam and ditch system. With big Ag Park dreams, a powerful Hawaiʻi Senator wonders, “how we gon’ pay for dat?”

The State Department of Education has rolled out Phase II of its plan to cool sweltering Hawaiʻi classrooms: hiring Jack Frost, personification of winter itself.