Stewart Yerton

Sports organizers, including the International Olympic Committee, are increasingly grappling with how to handle carbon emissions related to big events.

UPDATE: New details emerged on Saturday in a video provided to Civil Beat of the incident that led to the arrest. The squalid conditions and violent outbreaks led the state representative for downtown to call for changes to Hawaiʻi landlord-tenant law.

The controversy over the downtown Honolulu building pits one of Hawaiʻi’s oldest real estate services companies against an aliʻi trust established by Queen Emma to benefit her hospital.

Travelers can now carry 10-foot, 5-inch surfboard bags on Hawaiian and Alaska Airlines flights.

Critics say an agreement between the state and a Japanese energy firm lacks details and could bind Hawaiʻi to using fossil fuel to produce electricity.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation's plan for electric airplanes is limited to a high-level study.

Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.

The 2023 Maui fires and pushback on the use of emergency orders derailed the governor's early plan to address the state's housing crisis. But he says he hasn't given up on the issue.

Dozens of people have been living in a downtown office building without kitchens, air conditioning and proper ventilation. The landlord says he is working to address safety concerns and plans to convert the building to student housing.

Maui Land & Pineapple is accusing Japanese billionaire Tadashi Yanai of watering golf courses with water meant to be used for West Maui fire protection.