Still, Lanai can be affordable to those with modest bankrolls. Rates start at $115 per night at the 11-room Hotel Lanai, built 80 years ago to house James Dole's friends and plantation executives.

James Dole, the president of Hawaiian Pineapple Company, bought Lanai for $1.1 million in 1922, and the island became the largest pineapple plantation in the world, responsible for growing 75% of ...

Dole commissioned the Lanai Theater in 1926, but like the pineapple industry, it went bust in the 1990s. Two years – and a $4 million renovation – after Ellison’s arrival, the bijou was ...

David Murdock’s decision last week to sell the Hawaiian island of Lanai comes as the L.A. billionaire faces a November deadline to repay a $300 million loan taken out in connection with Dole ...

Some might remember Lanai as the "pineapple island," once owned by Dole and home to the world's largest pineapple plantation, but most recently, Oracle's Larry Ellison purchased 97 percent of the ...

If there's proof that a diet rich in fruits and vegetables is the key to a long life, former Dole Food owner David Murdock, now 101 years old, is it. When he sold the tiny Hawaii Island of Lanai ...

Lanai’s 30th annual Pineapple Festival attracted visitors, returning kamaaina and locals who remember a time when the iconic fruit was their source of livelihood.

It was designed and built in 1947 by a Dole employee, Edwin B. Cavendish, to provide recreation for plantation workers. Cavendish isn’t a muni owned by Lanai City, but rather by Ellison.

Hawaii's Backyard Travel Lanai celebrates a rich past during its annual pineapple festival By Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi, Special to the Star-Advertiser June 30, 2019 1/9 COURTESY RON GINGERICH ...