It’s official. The summit of Kilauea Volcano has erupted, says chief scientist Jim Kauahikaua at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory. This is the first explosion in the crater since 1924, and the first eruption of any kind there since 1982. On Tues. at 2:58 a.m., a small gas explosion in the wall of Halemaumau crater, sent small […]
I’ve stood at the edge of the huge crater at the summit of Kilauea Volcano on the Big Island many times over the last 28 years, but I’ve never seen anything like what I saw yesterday and last night. Halemaumau Crater has long been rather placid, with only various small vents of steam and gas
If HAWAII Magazine took your photo at the Arizona Aloha Festival, the pictures are now posted in our photo gallery. If you had your photo taken at the HAWAII Magazine booth on Saturday, click here. For Sunday photos, click here. The HAWAII Magazine team traveled more than a 1,000 miles to the Grand Canyon state.
If you’re in Phoenix, Ariz., this weekend, look for HAWAII Magazine at the Arizona Aloha Festival. Stop by our booth (near the marketplace stage) between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Our folks will sporting their brand-new “We’ve Got Issues” HAWAII Magazine T-shirts. They’ll be giving away freebies, and holding a drawing for a $500 gift
Lava was still flowing into the ocean today at four locations off the Big Island’s Puna Coastline. Due to another shift in flow direction, Hawaii County officials moved a visitor viewing area to a new location, this one with views of lava entering the ocean. The viewing area has been moved daily since county officials
Just hitting news stands is the April issue of Golf Magazine, with its 20th anniversary list of premier golf resorts, picked with the help of 8,000 readers. Of the 75 resorts, Hawaii has nine. Top rated was the Four Seasons Resort Lana’i at Manele Bay, praised for its “pristine” golf experience. Also receiving honors was
County officials are hoping to open an access road that will allow visitors to safely view a Big Island lava flow by Saturday. A lava flow from Kilauea Volcano that has been slowly passing through the mostly vacated subdivision of Royal Gardens since January finally reached the ocean early this morning. County officials hope that
You ask. We answer. Reader Joy Jones asks about Jack Thompson, one of the last remaining residents in the Big Island’s lava-inundated Royal Gardens subdivision. Her main concern: Was Thompson OK, and was his home still standing? She’d been watching Anthony Bourdain’s food travelogue No Reservations that aired Monday on Travel Network. Bourdain visited Thompson
You ask. We answer. Reader Sharon Nehring-Willson from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada, wrote with a question about traveling to the summit of Mauna Kea on the Big Island. An avid hiker, she’s planning a trip to Hawaii with her family in March, and wanted to know if her 16-month-old daughter would be comfortable on the drive
Our friend Hawaii food writer Joan Namkoong e-mailed today with a new restaurant to add to our Big Island eats round-up. Since she’s a Big Island resident and the kind of person who always knows where to find great food, we snapped to attention. Wrote Joan: There’s a yummy new place to eat on the
You ask. We answer. Reader Janice Taylor of Vernon Hills, Ill., wrote asking if Flumin’ Da Ditch was still doing tours on the Big Island. The short answer: “At the moment, no.” Flumin’ Da Ditch offered kayak tours down old Kohala Ditch water flumes, used originally by sugar plantations to transport freshly cut cane. The
The Democratic presidential caucus at Koko Head Elementary School last night wasn’t chaos. It was more like college registration in the bad old days before computers—long lines, and nobody knew which one to stand in. People were, by and large, frustrated but patient.Up on the stage, trying to make herself heard, was precinct chair Amy
