HONOLULU (AP) — The owners of Hawaii's last sugar plantation say they're getting out of the sugar-growing business. Miles of sugar cane fields once spread across the islands, providing work to ...

The sugar industry in Hawaii dominated the state's economy for over a century. But it has shrunk in recent years. Now, the last of the state's... Fermin Domingo, 61, climbs up the side of a sugar cane ...

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The only remaining sugar mill in Hawaii is ending its final harvest. The last cane haul at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company on Maui is ...

“It all started here,” said Bob Gunter, president and CEO of Kōloa Rum Company. “It” being Hawaiʻi’s sugarcane industry and “here” being Old Kōloa Town on the Hawaiian island of Kaua’i. Kōloa Mill ...

Maui’s inaugural mandarin harvest transforms former sugar cane fields into flourishing groves, giving travelers and locals a ...

Anthony Banua-Simon’s nonfiction feature debut, Cane Fire, is a personal family history, historical explainer of sugar production, ode to union organizing and expose of a Hawaiian island’s ...

rom the late-1800s to the mid-1900s, cane was king in Hawaii. More than 240,000 acres of it could be seen nodding in the wind on Oahu, Maui, the Big Island and Kauai. At one time, there were 17 sugar ...

Hawaiian sugar growers have long been in an uncomfortably tight box. Their per-acre yields make them the most efficient producers in the world, but their high labor costs and long sea haul to market ...