2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1468+ words) Two days after a California visitor died on the Kalalau Trail, Hawaii invited the public to weigh in on its first hiking trail plan update in 35 years. The plan does not address what killed him. But it does hold up…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1326+ words) Poipu Beach was just crowned the best beach in America for 2026. As it's only 15 minutes from the Beat of Hawaii headquarters on Kauai, we already know what that ranking is about to do to the beach. Wailea on Maui and…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (684+ words) Haleakala's summit visitor center reopened May 21, three months after closing and six weeks past the original April 10 target date. The reopen comes amid constraints we have been tracking since December, when rangers told us they turned away more than 120 vehicles…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago  (794+ words) This is not the end of the project, and the parcel is not being sold off tomorrow. For anyone who has watched Poipu change from a sleepy beach town into the high-end visitor real estate machine, this filing turns a…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (549+ words) That warning exists now in a way that did not exist in July 2023. For travelers booking Hawaii trips this fall and winter, and for residents who lived through August 2023, that changes what an ordinary forecast feels like. This is not…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1151+ words) Most visitors driving the Kapaa bypass on the way to Hanalei never know what sits on the mauka (mountain) side of the road. Fourteen hundred acres long, kept out of development, now hosts the first farmers planting this spring on…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago  (966+ words) We have had too many meals lately where the best part of the food didn't come from a restaurant. It came from a farmers market, a bakery, a seafood or poke counter, or a grocery store, while most expensive dinners…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago  (858+ words) Now we are learning that the message Hawaii sent and the message visitors heard weren't quite the same. One traveler heard "environmental stewardship," another heard "exclusivity," and yet another heard that Hawaii now operates under a different set of rules…...

1+ week, 16+ hour ago  (675+ words) Hawaiian (owned by Alaska) is offering Cook Islands fares from the mainland for under $700 with limited availability in June, July, and August, the peak of summer. That kind of discounting at this time of year doesn't signal a normal sale....

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (395+ words) A 30-year-old visitor from Oklahoma drowned on Kauai's north shore this week at Moloaa Beach, the latest in a pattern Kauai residents have watched repeat for decades. The beach looks calmer than many of Kauai's better-known north shore beaches, but…...