On the volcanic slopes of Hawaii’s Big Island, hundreds of farmers in the Kona region produce one of the most expensive coffees in the world. Those farmers recently won a series of settlements — ...

A 66-year-old Kona woman was indicted by a federal grand jury after she allegedly made more than $5.2 million selling “100 % Kona coffee ” that was actually sourced from South American beans bought in ...

Those in the coffee world are serious about their beans—so serious, in fact, sometimes the law needs to become involved. “There are probably many, many more marketers of coffee who have misused ...

Kona coffee farmers will soon be eligible to receive a share of millions of dollars thanks to proposed settlements in a 2019 class action lawsuit against retailers that falsely labeled commodity ...

Kroger is not following through with a settlement it reached with Hawaiian coffee bean farmers, reports the Cincinnati Business Courier. The farmers sued Kroger, Walmart, Costco, Albertsons, Safety, ...

HOLUALOA, Hawaii — Whenever Suzanne Shriner left Hawaii to visit the U.S. mainland, she didn’t have to taste the Kona coffee sold at Costco, Walmart and other big-box stores to conclude it was fake.

Kona coffee is rare, expensive, and now its counterfeit version is harder to find. A collection of small coffee farmers on Hawaii’s Big Island used science and the courts to fight grocers and ...

In the latest settlement struck in a legal action that saw coffee growers on Hawaii accuse major retailers of selling counterfeit Kona coffee, Safeway, Albertsons and the owner of two other large ...