The Hawaii County Council is set to vote Wednesday on prohibiting Big Island businesses from giving out plastic shopping bags at the point of sale.

An environmental consultant estimates there may be as many as 2,000 depleted uranium rounds at Pohakuloa Training Area, but the Army is questioning the math used to arrive at that number.

The county of Hawai'i was presented with the 2008 Hawaii Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Project Award and the Clean Water State Revolving Fund Project of the Year Award by the US Environmental Protection ...