NOAA says its review revealed the council’s “pattern of failure to comply,” and that it could withhold future funding if the money isn’t paid back.

Earthquakes, storm surges and other natural disasters could mean environmental catastrophe if oil and other hazardous material spill out.

It was the second large-scale clean-up effort inside the national monument around the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

One out of every $6 spent over a decade by the influential regional fishery council was questioned by investigators.

The process is beginning six years after Gov. David Ige first announced the initiative to manage 30% of the state’s nearshore waters by 2030.

Some experts say giant trevally, a culturally and ecologically important fish, has declined as its popularity has soared online, but better data is needed.

The spillover effect created outside the marine protected area seems to have benefited Hawaii’s commercial fishermen as well.

A major effort to reauthorize the Magnuson-Stevens Act for the first time in 16 years is moving through the House, but its prospects in the Senate don’t look good.

Meet the wahine leaders navigating thousands of miles on voyaging canoes, using the natural world as their guide.

The prime minister alarmed some neighbors after he signed a new security pact with China, which has been expanding its footprint in the region.