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Plant Thought Extinct Found On Big IslandWednesday, September 1, 2010 @ 10:32PMA plant last seen on Maui in 1920 is found on the slopes of Mauna Kea on the Big Island.

Dump the Diet!Monday, June 28, 2010 @ 4:45PM(June 24, 2010) Everyone knows the highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest, 29,028 feet above sea level. That’s pretty straightforward until you ask, “What do you mean by highest ?” Everest wins if you’re talking about altitude , but you can also make a pretty good case for Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, 13,796 feet above sea level, which would win the title of tallest, measuring from base to peak.

In Brief - BusinessThursday, May 27, 2010 @ 5:23PMDelegates heading to World Tea Expo A statewide delegation of tea growers from Hawaii Island, Maui and Kauai will be introducing the Hawaii grown tea industry to the mainland and world specialty market at the World Tea Expo from June 11 to 13 at the convention center in Las Vegas.

Isle growers heading to Tea ExpoWednesday, May 26, 2010 @ 7:06AMSome years ago at a food festival, a Big Island farmer showed me a bag of tea leaves he'd grown and dried and predicted that tea would become an important part of agriculture here.

4.5 quake shakes Big Island, no tsunami generatedTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 1:50PMA 4.5 magnitude earthquake shook Big Island residents at 6:30 p.m. Monday. It was felt by island residents, but no tsunami was generated.

Big Island jolted by 4.5 quakeTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 6:12AMA magnitude 4.5 earthquake shook Big Island residents yesterday evening, but did not generate a tsunami.

Snowboarder Hight ready to hit her heightsMonday, February 15, 2010 @ 2:45AMShe has snowboarded down a volcano in Hawaii, met the governor of her state, became the first of her sex to execute one of those how-do-they-do-it? big-air maneuvers and made her second U.S. Olympic team by the age of 20. Elena Hight of South Lake Tahoe is...

49 states dusted with snow: Hawaii's the holdoutSunday, February 14, 2010 @ 6:36PMForget red and blue — color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout.

49 states dusted with snow; Hawaii's the holdoutSaturday, February 13, 2010 @ 5:32PMForget red and blue - color America white. There was snow on the ground in 49 states Friday. Hawaii was the holdout. It was the United States of Snow, thanks to an unusual combination of weather patterns that dusted the