Since 1994, coral cover has declined from 43 percent to 8 percent, due to "the weight of unchecked tourism and land-based runoff." ...

“They really are the gentle giants of the ocean,” says Shari Sicsko, co-owner of Kona Snorkel Trips, which offers its world-famous manta ray night snorkel year-round. “Everybody’s really passionate ...

There’s a magical place in Honolulu where bargain hunters and treasure seekers converge, where $35 can fill a shopping cart with goodies that would cost ten times that amount new, and where the ...

The landscape of historic Ali‘i Drive in Kailua-Kona is forever changed as the more than 100-year-old Moreton Bay Fig tree with branches that arched over the roadway was cut down, going from its ...

Hawaii County’s law regulating short-term vacation rentals — those lasting fewer than 180 consecutive days — could be pushed back to take effect July 1, 2026, under a proposal the County Council will ...

The best food experiences often happen in the most unexpected places, like finding a diamond ring in a box of Cracker Jacks, except the box is a tiny shop and the diamond is fresh ahi tuna that will ...

Explore the Koʻolau Mountains of Oʻahu, Hawaii. Rising sharply along the island’s windward coast, these steep ridges were ...

Today’s Supreme Court majority has not matched that nadir. But the conservative majority on the modern Court has steadily retrenched the landmark civil rights protections enacted during the 1960s — a ...