The holidays are in full swing here in Hawaii, and what the state lacks in snow, it makes up for with elaborate and festive holiday light displays. If you’re in the Islands this holiday season, here’s what you need to know and where to go for some free and open-to-the-public holiday cheer. OAHU • Honolulu […]
The ongoing Kilauea volcano lava flow, whose leading edge last month stopped short of crossing the main road through the Hawaii Island town of Pahoa after claiming a single residence, is now threatening the town’s largest grocery store and a major district intersection. Since Nov. 19, a breakout from the former, now inactive, leading edge
Yesterday, several dozen birds flew across the Kauai Channel before they hatched. Forty-three moli (Laysan albatross) eggs made the trip from Kauai to Oahu, packed in soft layers and tucked inside heated “coolers,” aboard a regularly scheduled Navy plane. The relocated albatross are part of a new joint effort between the U.S. Navy, the U.S.
It will be a blast from the past when the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum opens today in Honolulu. Its Long Gallery has been transformed to house a new temporary exhibit chronicling Hawaii’s changes since the museum’s founding in 1889. The retrospective “Change: 125 Years Through the Eyes of the Bishop Museum” is the culmination of
In most parts of the U.S., December and running don’t go all that well together. Not so in Hawaii, where the 42nd Honolulu Marathon is expecting record runner counts—as many as 33,000—from all 50 states and more than 40 countries when it kicks off this Sun., Dec. 14. The Honolulu Marathon is regularly ranked among
Lava Tree State Monument, a small, forested state park in Hawaii Island’s Puna district that has been closed for nearly four months, reopened to the public yesterday. The park was closed in August due to downed albizia trees felled by Tropical Storm Iselle. The small park is about three miles southeast of the town of
This Sun., Dec. 7, the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument will host memorial and commemorative ceremonies marking the 73rd anniversary of the day that instigated the U.S.’ entry into World War II. The National Park Service and the U.S. Navy will host an early morning joint memorial ceremony on the main
With its palm trees, fragrant flowers and mild temperatures, it can be easy to forget that it’s the start of the holiday season here on Oahu. That is, until you drive past Honolulu Hale (Oahu’s historic city hall). Earlier this week, a giant 21-foot shaka-flashing Santa and a lei-draped Tutu Mele (aka Mrs. Claus) took
Hawaii is blessed with some of the world’s most stunning coastal topography. Undulating green mountains ring the sea, stretches of white sand seem to extend beyond the horizon and black lava boulders spill into the waves. Whether you hike them, drive them, boat or fly alongside them, Hawaii is filled with scenic coastlines. So, we
What’s pink and white and read all over? Posters advertising the annual springtime extravaganza that is the National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington, D.C.! But what does that have to do with Hawaii, you ask? Hawaii Island-based illustrative artist Jing Jing Tsong’s original artwork was chosen to represent the upcoming 2015 National Cherry Blossom Festival.
Every year, an invited shortlist of the world’s most elite surfers head to the North Shore of Oahu to wait for Hawaii’s biggest waves. But it’s not every year that the really big waves come. The holding period for this year’s 30th annual Quicksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau—the world’s longest-running and most prestigious big
It’s Makahiki season, and this year residents and visitors to Maui can join the inaugural Maui Makahiki. The community event will take place this Sat., Nov. 29 on the grounds of Maui Tropical Plantation in Wailuku. Makahiki is the Hawaiian celebratory season that coincides with the first sighting of Makalii, the constellation Pleiades, as it
