House Bill 348 would ban small single-use plastic bottles in hotels, motels, and bed and breakfasts — essentially any place ...

The city and county’s chief executive talks about the landfill, homelessness, the police commission and more. Editor’s note : ...

The town of Harrisburg announced Venator Chemicals has officially withdrawn its Special Use Permit application to construct a chemical waste landfill. According to a press release Monday ...

As someone who was born and raised in Hawaii, I tell tourists to avoid spending money on beach toys, cocktails from a resort, ...

Ernest Lau of the Board of Water Supply, and Melodie Aduja, co-chair of the Democratic Party’s Environmental Caucus, share ...

Kilauea began continuously releasing lava from its summit caldera inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park at 9:26 a.m., the U.S ...

According to Bobby Jewell, Surf Block’s manufacturing lead, it takes only about one to two months’ worth of surfboard waste ...

It is not "out of sight, out of mind"; landfills are not just eyesores in remote areas, but they also pose a significant health risk to the communities around them and emit a substantial amount of ...

At the state Capitol, state-level measures also look to ban landfill sites above freshwater aquifers anywhere in Hawaii. “I don’t think we could have applied more due diligence, study and ...

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he hopes recovering the remains of two First Nations women murdered by a serial killer from a Manitoba landfill brings closure to their families. RCMP have ...

A measure to ban landfills over aquifers continues to move along in the state Legislature. In December, Honolulu Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s administration announced plans to site Oʻahu’s new landfill in ...

The location — west of Kamehameha Highway and north of Paalaa Uka Pupu­kea Road — is owned by Dole Food Co. Hawaii. Since the landfill site’s public disclosure, Council members ...