Hawaiian Airlines will add twice-weekly nonstop flights between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Kahului, Maui, to its mainland U.S. flight schedule, beginning Oct. 3. Flight times for the new route will be: • Las Vegas, Nev. – Kahului, Maui Departure: 6:25 p.m. (West Coast time), Sundays, WednesdaysArrival: 9:25 p.m. (Hawaii time), same day • Kahului, Maui […]
A bill seeking tougher penalties for anyone caught intentionally harming the Hawaiian monk seal, or other endangered Hawaii species, became state law this week. Hawaii Lt. Gov. James “Duke” Aiona signed Senate Bill 2441 into law, making the intentional harassing, harming or killing of a monk seal—or any endangered or threatened Hawaii species—a class C
King Kamehameha Day is this Friday, June 11. It’s a state holiday, honoring King Kamehameha the Great, who unified the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1810 and was its first monarch. Ceremonies statewide will pay tribute to the king’s legacy with lei draping of Kamehameha statues on Oahu and the Big Island, parades and other cultural
This is a story about a day on Maui I set aside to do nothing but relax. Over four days, I’d been on 34 ziplines, from the slopes of Haleakala to the West Maui Mountains, all for this magazine. It was seriously fun. But, in the end, it was, well, exhausting. I’d yet to spend
The Lantern Floating Hawaii ceremony—one of the Oahu’s most visually breathtaking annual events—returns on Monday evening, May 31, to Ala Moana Beach Park. If you’ve never seen it in person, it’s a must-attend—Honolulu’s version of Toro Nagashi, a Japanese tradition, which translate literally as “lantern offerings on water.” Each Memorial Day at sunset, more than
The first ever Na Hoku O Hawaii Music Festival begins on Oahu on Thursday, kicking off a four-day celebration of the music of Hawaii and the artists—both past and present—who create it. The anchor event for the festival is the 33rd annual edition of the Na Hoku Hanohano Music Awards on Sun., May 30—the premier
London. Paris. San Francisco. Florence. Austin. The Big Island of Hawaii. The latest episode of Travel Channel’s Samantha Brown’s Great Weekends—airing Saturday at 10 p.m. (Eastern and Pacific), 7 p.m. (Hawaii)—is showcasing as much of the Big Island of Hawaii’s charms as its über-cheerful, ever-game host could squeeze into one hour of television, and three
Hawaii authors and book publishers are getting some serious recognition this month, and it has nothing to do with getting their titles on the Amazon.com Kindle or the Apple iPad. A couple of weeks back, the Hawaii Book Publishers Association handed out prizes to winners of its annual Ka Palapala Pookela Awards, which honor the
It’s looking like a hana hou for Five-O. Entertainment industry trade papers The Hollywood Reporter and Variety are reporting today that CBS has picked up a redux of the classic Hawaii crime drama series Hawaii Five-O for the network’s fall season. An official announcement from the network is expected on Wednesday. Plans for a new
After four days, my count stood at 34 ziplines—every zipline on the island of Maui. I’d taken a ride on all of ‘em. It was a challenge I’d been anxious to take on. Two years ago, I’d first strapped myself into a harness, clipped to a pulley and zoomed down on a steel cable through
Feeding 90 members of the cast and crew of Lost on a North Shore Oahu beach will be Chef Robert Irvine’s next Hawaii-based challenge for his popular Food Network series Dinner: Impossible. The episode premieres May 19. If you’re a devotee of the brawny English celebrity chef’s show, you know its modus operandi. Offered no
It was as if someone had taken a living room out of a stylish Hawaii home and placed it on the edge of Hulopoe Beach just for us. Those were my wife’s words, as we settled for dinner in the Ocean Hale at the Four Seasons Resort Lanai at Manele Bay recently. Our eyes darted
