A Hawaiʻi vacation will cost you more in the near future thanks to a new “green fee” that the governor signed into law today.

Gov. Josh Green wanted the money to go into special environmental funds. Instead, lawmakers retain a say in how it’s spent.

In recent years, the real progress has been outside the rooms where the high-level official U.N. negotiations are held.

The fishing has resumed in the deep ocean waters that were designated off-limits over a decade ago.

Wildfire is the biggest threat facing Maui, according to the county’s draft Hazard Mitigation Plan but FEMA cuts could require a pivot to other funding sources.

The federal government will no longer track the nation’s costliest natural disasters. A local solution can fill some of the need here — if its funding holds out.

People in Asia are exposed to levels up to six times higher than their counterparts in the West.

The agency argued that pending lawsuits from Hawaiʻi and Michigan against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change would infringe on the federal government’s authority.

Judges for the National Headliner Award said the work turns readers into explorers and allows them to share the thrill, discoveries and importance of environmental/scientific research.

The Legislature is exempting properties destroyed in a disaster from certain permitting requirements to speed up recovery efforts, but not everyone can take advantage of it.