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Lanai Draws Tenants In Lottery For First Affordable Housing Project In 30 Years Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2022

Lanai Draws Tenants In Lottery For First Affordable Housing Project In 30 Years

The housing development funded by tech magnate Larry Ellison will almost double the number of affordable housing units on the island.

Why This Hawaiian Island Has To Outsource Psychiatric Care Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2017

Why This Hawaiian Island Has To Outsource Psychiatric Care

For the first time since 1990, the state agency that provides care to adults diagnosed with a serious mental illness has no staff on Lanai. The problem is a microcosm of a statewide mental health care crisis.

Larry Ellison Wants Off Lanai’s Electric Grid. That Could Be A Problem For Everyone Else Brittany Lyte/Civil Beat/2020

Larry Ellison Wants Off Lanai’s Electric Grid. That Could Be A Problem For Everyone Else

A company owned by the business magnate says it plans to build a private microgrid on Lanai to service two resorts, a move that could end up pushing rates higher for island residents.

A Buddhist Temple On Lanai Sheds Tradition To Fight Decline Ryan Siphers/CivilBeat/2022

A Buddhist Temple On Lanai Sheds Tradition To Fight Decline

The 97-year-old Lanai Hongwanji Mission faces a reckoning as older members die and a younger generation fails to succeed them.

Sally Kaye: Why Is Maui County Messing Around With Manini Word Changes To the County Code? Ludwig Laab/Civil Beat/2022

Sally Kaye: Why Is Maui County Messing Around With Manini Word Changes To the County Code?

There are so many other pressing issues, changing “shall” to “must” seems a distinction without a difference.

Even Apartment Dwellers Could Cash In On This Huge Lanai Solar Project Courtesy: Hawaiian Electric

Even Apartment Dwellers Could Cash In On This Huge Lanai Solar Project

The planned 10,000-panel project is expected to meet the majority of the island’s current energy needs.

Sally Kaye: Maui Police Officers Are Talking Story On Lanai Sally Kaye/Civil Beat/2022

Sally Kaye: Maui Police Officers Are Talking Story On Lanai

Lanai’s police officers want everyone to feel comfortable asking for help, so they’re holding monthly “Let’s Talk!” sessions with the community.

Raucous Roosters Are Invading Neighborhoods On Lanai Cory Lum/Civil Beat

Raucous Roosters Are Invading Neighborhoods On Lanai

Residents say an influx of roosters is laying bare an age-old spat over two sometimes conflicting hallmarks of country life: agriculture and peace and quiet.

Lanai School Gets Hawaiian Immersion Classroom Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2021

Lanai School Gets Hawaiian Immersion Classroom

The creation of a Hawaiian language immersion program comes seven years after a Lanai mother filed a lawsuit against the DOE.