The stakes are high, as the project includes commercial space and housing with a potential total cost of $2 billion.

Hawai‘i County is working on solutions: registration, enforcement, future limits. That matters. So does Maui’s push to return ...

Tire wear particles have been found to account for about 45% of all microplastics in both terrestrial and aquatic systems.

Hawaiʻi needs more locally grown food, but plans for a vertical farm and aquaculture operation near Sunset Beach Park violate ...

Federal funding cuts to public radio and television stations, which threaten the existence of some small broadcasters on the continent, are expected to have a muted immediate impact on Hawaiʻi ...

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Tire wear particles have been found to account for about 45% of all microplastics in both terrestrial and aquatic systems.

A state Elections Commission subcommittee found evidence that the state counted hundreds more ballots than were cast on ...

Benjamin Moralez, 48, fired multiple rounds from his hotel room and refused to drop his weapon as he approached officers in a hallway, prosecutors said.

A prisoner with a mental disability who killed himself at the Hilo jail weeks before he was due to be released was abused by ...

The robust debate so necessary to deliberations in a democracy is squelched as the views of a minority come to be seen as the ...