A remote Maui community holds its annual festival even as it continues to mobilize against a disease striking close to home.
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Tad Bartimus: Hana’s Do-It-Yourself Battle Against Rat Lungworm
Hana’s public school is closing its agricultural fields, trimming back jungle around the campus and launching an education campaign to control the spread of the parasite.
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Tad Bartimus: Museum Exhibit Honors Renowned Maui Poet And Gardener
Prolific author William Merwin transformed a scrub pineapple field into a world-famous palm garden near Haiku.
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Will Popular Big Island Trail Someday Get Toilets?
Big Island activists have for years unsuccessfully prodded officials to install toilets on the ancient Kaawaloa trail to the Captain Cook Monument.
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Tad Bartimus: Rat Lungworm Disease Threatens Tiny Hana
Many of the town’s residents spent hours at a public meeting last week to learn how obscure garden slugs are posing a major health hazard.
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Tad Bartimus: What You Need To Know About Rat Lungworm Disease
With cases now confirmed on three islands, Hawaii residents should be taking precautions, especially against the “semi-slug.”
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Tad Bartimus: Living With The Horrors Of Rat Lungworm Disease
A Maui woman talks about her ordeal, which began with flu-like symptoms and morphed into a smorgasbord of pain.
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Bret Yager: Scientists Race To Help Hawaii Corals Survive
Some corals are starting to rebound on their own and scientists have plans to help other species survive global warming.
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Tad Bartimus: The Hana Highway Has Become A Vehicle Dumping Ground
The number of abandoned vehicles on Maui has tripled in the last four years. You can see a number of them along the road to Hana.