You’d be hard-pressed to find a better place to spend the holidays than Hawaii — especially with the severe winter weather hitting parts of the Mainland. So it’s no wonder President Barack Obama and his family will be spending Christmas and New Year’s in the Islands for the third year in a row. First lady Michelle […]
Some folks wait for Santa during the holiday season. But here in Hawaii, we wait almost as patiently to catch a glimpse of another annual winter season visitor—more than 10,000 of them actually. The humpback whales—called kohola in Hawaiian—reside in Hawaii’s warm and shallow waters each November through early May to breed, birth and raise
Is there anyone who still believes you can’t have a white Christmas in Hawaii? Last week, a storm front that brought heavy rains across the island chain dropped the first snow of the season on the summits of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa on the Big Island. So much so, in fact, a winter storm
You ask. We answer. Pat Duffus of Clearwater, Florida writes: What is the story behind the Hawaiian flag? When I see it I am reminded more of Britain than Hawaii. Is there a Hawaiian flag that precedes it? Pat’s right about the British connection. King Kamehameha I flew a British flag throughout his kingdom in
