The cover feature of HAWAII Magazine’s March/April issue is our 2011 Now List , a.k.a. our annual “20 Things We Love About Hawaii … Right Now” list. Among the collection of things we’re currently enamored of here in the Islands, you’ll find our favorite handmade, fresh-ingredient-fused Hawaiian paleta to cool down with on a hot […]
May Day may be lei day in Hawaii. But really, any day in the Islands is a good day to celebrate the art and culture of Hawaiian lei making. And if you’re on Oahu this weekend and love lei, you’re in luck. The Honolulu Academy of Arts is once again dedicating an entire spring weekend
There’s still much talk swirling in the national and international media about just how much of Hawaii is really open for business in the wake of last Friday’s tsunami-generated ocean surges, spawned by the Japan earthquake. So much talk, in fact, that Hawaii tourism officials and Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie took to issuing multiple media
It’s over … for now. Kilauea volcano’s most recent fissure eruption, which last week sent lava spatter up to 160 feet in the air from a 1.4-mile crack in the earth, has ended indefinitely. The breakout Kamoamoa fissure, near Puu Oo crater on the Kilauea summit’s east rift zone, paused last Wednesday evening after five
Geologists at the Big Island’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory yesterday released dramatic video of last weekend’s collapse of the Puu Oo crater floor on Kilauea volcano. The time-lapse video below, captured over 19 hours on Saturday, shows the Puu Oo crater floor dropping more than 377 feet. As the floor of the crater gives way, fiery
The floor of Kilauea volcano’s Puu Oo crater collapsed in an explosion of ash and fumes this weekend at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park as lava began spattering as high as 80 ft. from a new fissure two miles away. Hawaiian Volcano Observatory geologists reported that the Puu Oo vent collapse event began at around 2:16
Congratulations to Lisa Pruszewski of Chicago, Illinois. And get ready for some warm weather! Lisa was the big winner of our 2011 Honolulu Festival Oahu Vacation Getaway contest. Her prize? • Two round-trip tickets on Hawaiian Airlines to Oahu. • A four-night stay at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa. • Two tickets to
Months of fairly quiet eruptive activity at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park have ended in recent days with a series of explosive rock collapses, earthquakes and a rising lava lake at Kilauea Volcano summit’s Halemaumau crater. Halemaumau crater has been producing a steam and ash plume from an ever-expanding vent in its floor since March 2008.
Think you can squeeze in a week’s vacation in Hawaii between March and December? A new Continental Airlines promotion is touting round-trip airfare deals to Oahu and Maui from 15 U.S. Mainland cities, including New York, Chicago and Dallas. The fare deals, announced this week, are for travel to Kahului, Maui, and Honolulu, Oahu. Roundtrip
Alaska Airlines has launched its new daily nonstop route between Bellingham, Wash., and Honolulu, Oahu, with a $149 limited-time one-way introductory airfare. The Seattle-based carrier, which first announced the new route last August, began daily service between the two cities last week. The $149 special fare is applicable for travel between Feb. 14 and June
Good news for the Big Island of Hawaii and its east side city by the bay. Continental Airlines will begin offering the first major carrier daily nonstop flights from the U.S. Mainland to Hilo in more than a quarter century, beginning June 2011. Continental announced this week that it would be adding a daily nonstop
Hawaiian Airlines gets a new Airbus A330. You get a roundtrip Hawaii airfare deal for a winter or spring vacation as low as $333. Hawaiian Airlines is celebrating the arrival of its third brand new Airbus A330 aircraft by offering $333 roundtrip airfare deals to Oahu and Maui from 10 of the carrier’s west coast
