Bill Dorman

For many people, July 4th may include some combination of beach, barbecue and fireworks, maybe with a little baseball. In fact, every team in the Major Leagues will play on Saturday. But the game is having a banner season outside the United States. One place where it's booming this summer is South Korea.

For the fifth year in a row, this yearʻs NATO summit included representatives from what organizers call the “Indo-Pacific Four.”

The most volatile major stock market in the world is closer to Honolulu than to Wall Street — it's South Korea.

There's a debate going on in Hawaiʻi about whether importing liquefied natural gas and burning it instead of oil for power can lower electricity costs and keep the state on track with its clean energy mandates.

July has brought brutal heat to much of the country — and much of the world. Temperatures have come close to 100 degrees in Tokyo this week, which is highlighting a new discussion about business clothing.

For 20 years, CNBC has ranked the top and the worst states to do business . This year, Hawaiʻi came in last place, number 50

Twenty-seven members of the Hawaiʻi National Guard arrived in Washington D.C. on July 6, and now Gov. Josh Green is facing calls to bring them back home.

The world's largest naval military warfare exercises are just over halfway through their five weeks of activity in and around Hawaiʻi.

Katie Mulliken, geologist at the USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, presents “Volcano Minute,” a new way to keep track of Hawaiʻi's volcanoes.

Hawaiʻi is not the only location of a noteworthy international military exercise in recent days.