Articles by Maureen O'Connell

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Lānaʻi, Molokaʻi, Oʻahu

Hawaiian Airlines launching “Ohana” interisland service to Molokai, Lanai

Hawaiian Airlines’ parent company is calling the carrier’s newest interisland operation Ohana by Hawaiian. Beginning this summer, Ohana by Hawaiian will provide daily service from Honolulu to Molokai and Lanai using 48-seat ATR42 turboprop aircraft. In a news release issued last week, Mark Dunkerley, president and ceo of Honolulu-based Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiary

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Contests, Photo Contest, Uncategorized

SLIDESHOW: HAWAII Magazine’s 14th annual Photo Contest winners and finalists

Like the photo above as much as we do? It’s the grand prize-winning entry of HAWAII Magazine’s 14th annual Photo Contest. Last spring, we asked our HAWAII Magazine reader ohana to take an especially studied look at their favorite collection of islands. We scratched our traditional island-based categories (“Big Island,” “Kauai,” etc.) from the 2012

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Hawai‘i Island

Top 5 favorite Big Island scenic hiking trails

What’s your favorite scenic hiking trail (short or long) on the Big Island? Here’s the top five countdown of our facebook ohana’s favorite scenic hiking trails on the Big Island.   No. 5  WAIPIO VALLEY Situated on the northern Hamakua Coast, is lush Waipio Valley, known as “The Valley of the Kings.” It was the boyhood

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Oʻahu

International Waikiki Hula Conference paying tribute to Merrie Monarch’s 50th anniversary

This year’s International Waikiki Hula Conference, slated for mid-May, will pay tribute to Hawaii’s venerable Merrie Monarch Festival, which is marking its 50th anniversary this spring. In a news release announcing registration for the three-day conference, May 17-19 at the Hawaii Convention Center, Marnie Weeks, the event’s producer, said: “The International Waikiki Hula Conference brings

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Hawai‘i Island

Friends of Volcanoes National Park offering hikes, behind-the-scenes look at rare species

This month, the Friends of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park’s events lineup includes a hike through 1970s lava-flow areas with a geologist guide and a special field seminar at the park’s nursery, herbarium and the bird and wildlife collection (which isn’t open to the general public). • Hiking Pu’u Huluhulu, the latest installment of nonprofit group’s

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