Like Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co. did in East Maui, Pioneer Mill created diversions that left West Maui streambeds dry and kalo farmers without a source of water. But while companies elsewhere ...

When a visitor Sunday asked Akoi when the pounded kalo is ready, Akoi said it’s a gut feeling, something you know within “your na’au.” “Everything is one feeling in the Hawaiian culture ...

or kalo--a plant central to Hawaiian culture. It follows a Native Hawaiian farmer and uses his relationship to his kalo to explore what it means to be Hawaiian.

The staple root crop is so valued that it’s “known affectionately as the staff of life,” says University of Hawaii agroecologist Noa Kekuewa Lincoln. Known locally as kalo, the plant has ...

Mia ‘Uhila’s return home to use her final year of eligibility to play for the University of Hawaii is truly a full-circle moment.