Summer is right around the corner and conditions are expected to get hotter. Air conditioning companies in Hawaii are letting people know COVID-19 has impacted their industry as well.

The issue of air conditioning is also about equity. Students in underfunded schools are more likely to bear the brunt of these poor conditions, exacerbating existing educational disparities.

For years, education advocates have been calling for the need to install air conditioning in classrooms. Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You ...

Toting handmade signs to "Cool Our School," nearly 500 students from Campbell High School in Ewa Beach converged on the state Capitol with their teachers and principal Thursday to rally for air ...

Hawaii is studying whether cold seawater can be harnessed to meet the islands’ year-round air conditioning needs. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

MAUI, Hawaii (AP) — More than 400 portable air-conditioning units have been installed in Hawaii public schools this year as a response to public complaints about sweltering classrooms.

Plans to air-condition many commercial and government buildings in Honolulu using cold deep-sea water have been shut down because of increasing construction costs.

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Seawater air conditioning will save 260 million gallons of potable water that is used in conventional AC every year. ... and use more chemicals to treat their water than seawater AC, HSWAC says.

To get air conditioners into public school classrooms. Images sent by several schools to Hawaii News Now show high temperatures in classrooms, ...

House Bill 1951 was approved by legislators this week, extending the prior authorization of $77 million in special purpose revenue bonds that were due to expire on June 30.