In a lot of ways, for better or for worse, the modern history of Hawaii could be said to be the history of sugar cane. Sugarcane, “ko” in Hawaiian, originated in New Guinea and was brought to ...

Fermin Domingo, 61, climbs up the side of a sugar cane hauler for the last time. The haul truck driver has worked at Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar (HC&S) company for the past 40 years, harvesting ...

HONOLULU – 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 ...

Sugar cane, seen here after its harvest, was Hawaii’s biggest export for around 100 years until cheaper sources of sugar killed the industry in the islands in the mid 20th century. (John Hook ...

In one of Michael Pollan’s recent books, he laments his inability to include coffee, chocolate, bananas and sugar in his locally sourced diet. Well, we are in luck. Locally grown in Hawaii may ...

Kōloa Rum Co. announced the launch of a highly anticipated new addition to their portfolio: Kōloa Kaua‘i Cane Fire Cinnamon Flavored Hawaiian Rum.

CROCKETT — For more than a century, boats and later cargo ships from Hawaii laden with raw cane sugar sailed into the Carquinez Strait to the C&H sugar refinery here, once the largest in the ...

Sugar cane growing expanded further after the U.S. annexed Hawaii and property rights for plantation owners became more secure, said Sumner La Croix, a University of Hawaii economics professor.

Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar, which ran the plantation that plans to harvest its last cane this year, has been diverting water from 19 streams in east Maui and several others in central Maui to ...