Molokai is often associated with the leper ... sited above the ocean lies overgrown and abandoned, its once-expensive landscaping of coconut palms now leafless and dead from lack of irrigation.

“This (Molokai) case should protect short-term rental ... it’s impossible for me to say right now because our economic landscape, our tourism landscape, has changed so dramatically.” ...

There’s now a push to add a second. Molokai is known for its rural landscape. There’s not a single stop light on the island, and residents like it that way. Download the free KHON2 app ...

“This acquisition provides an opportunity to restore native landscape across the ahupuaa ... contributing to the Molokai Sole Source Aquifer. The ahupuaa’s higher elevations contain intact ...

COURTESY STATE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES A native bee—hylaeus connectens—sits on a native shrub kolomona (Senna gaudichaudii ) in Makolelau, an ahupuaa in East Molokai.