Kawainui Makai, was made through the County’s Public Access, Open Space, and Natural Resources Commission (PONC) program.

A resolution introduced at the Hawaiʻi County Council urges state lawmakers to ban all harvesting of fish for commercial aquariums.

On the Hilo-Hāmākua coast, Hawaiʻi County paid $6.2 million to purchase an 81-acre property known as Kawainui Makai to ...

The goal isn't just to heal the environment, activists say. It's to forge an island where Hawaiians can reclaim their culture.

A resolution urging a ban on the taking of ornamental fish for aquariums received a 9-0 vote Tuesday by the County Council’s ...

HONOLULU (KHON) – Hawaii’s “Green Fee” went into effect on Jan. 1, albeit without one provision that lawmakers were hoping to push through. The Green Fee increases the Transient Accommodations Tax by ...

Hawaii’s new tourist tax has come into force. The tax is seeking to raise money to help address potential ramifications of climate change in the nation’s first “Green Fee” levy, designed to help ...

I visited Hawaii for the first time, and there are five things I wish I'd known before I left. Figuring out that there's more than one Leonard's Bakery on Oahu would've saved me some stress. I also ...

A federal judge upheld Hawaii’s new tax on cruises and other travel accommodations. Judge Jill A. Otake declined to halt the implementation of the tax, according to a Dec. 23 filing in the District of ...

HONOLULU, HAWAII - DECEMBER 24: Micah Alejado #12 of the Hawaii Rainbow Warriors runs the ball during the first half of the Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl against the California Golden Bears at the Clarence ...

A federal judge's ruling clears the way for Hawaii to include cruise ship passengers in a new tourist tax to help pay for the impacts of climate change, a levy set to go into effect at the start of ...