A fire that clouded the skies with dark gray plumes burned at least 2,500 acres of old cane fields and brush, slowed afternoon traffic headed Upcountry and forced evacuations of the HC&D cement ...

Among the newer developments is the addition of a sweet potato farm on about 200 acres of former sugar cane fields ... to sustain the 36,000 acres of old sugar fields, of which 27,000 are ...