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The state Senate plans to vote Wednesday whether to confirm the highly criticized nominee to lead the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.

New soil samples show levels of arsenic, lead and other chemicals don’t pose a risk to human health, according to Department of Health.

UPDATE: The Senate Water and Land Committee votes to oppose the appointment of a development lobbyist as head of the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Hawaii Gov. David Ige testifies in support of his nominee to head the Department of Land and Natural Resources, but some senators are skeptical at Carleton Ching’s confirmation hearing.

China and India are conducting their own studies of genetically modified crops, which are controversial everywhere.

Watch the live stream of the controversial nominee for chairman of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Health Department’s plan to impose a ban last year was thwarted by then-Gov. Neil Abercrombie’s inaction. Now the Legislature is getting into the act.

A federal judge says she may wait to see what happens with two related bills in the Legislature, even though they both appear to be dead.

The city hopes to raise $600,000 annually from local businesses to combat chronic erosion, but some are balking at the proposal. Would the efforts merely stave off the inevitable?

Opponents decry effects on health and tourism, but field burning by the only sugar plantation left on Maui doesn’t violate clean-air standards, state says.