Category: Hawaii

Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Volcano Erupts; US Agency Issues ‘Code: Red’ Warning

The world’s largest active volcano, Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, erupted for the first time since 1984, which prompted a warning from the U.S. Geological Survey. Mauna Loa, located on the island of Hawaii, erupted at around 4:30 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time on Nov. 28, according to U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in a recent alert. The USGS, which…


Residents of Hawaii’s Big Island Urged to Prepare as Active Volcano Displays Increased Seismic Activity

The world’s largest active volcano, Mauna Loa, on the Big Island of Hawaii has displayed an increase in seismic activity in recent months, prompting officials to warn residents of a potential eruption. Mauna Loa is among the world’s most active volcanoes, having erupted 33 times since 1843, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). During the last…


Visit Kauai to Tour, Taste Through One of America’s Only Working Chocolate Farms

By Jessica Yadegaran From The Mercury News Kapa’a–In a quiet clearing on the lush, tropical fruit and chocolate plantation of Lydgate Farms, we take our first bite of tangy, mucilaginous cacao fruit. The creamy white pulp could have become an epic sour candy flavor had it not been overshadowed two millennia ago by its seed:…


Taking the kids: To Kauai

Have you ever reached the end of the road? Literally. We’re nearly there at the Hanalei Colony Resort on Kauai’s pristine North Shore, famous for the drop-dead gorgeous Na Pali Coast. We’ve crossed several one-lane bridges and passed the tiny town of Hanalei with its mix of surf shops, shave ice stands, food trucks and restaurants. It’s…


Million Dollar Weekend (1948)

Two people—a middle-aged stock broker and a young widow—are passengers on the same flight from California to Hawaii. For different reasons, they’ve both fled the state with secrets. Neither knows of the other’s situation, and they both turn to each other for help. Credit: Public Domain Movies – Feature Films: Cinema collection: epochcinema.com Epoch Original…


5.0 Earthquake Hits During Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Volcano Unrest

HONOLULU—A magnitude 5.0 earthquake was the strongest of a series of temblors that struck Friday on Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano on the planet that scientists say is in a “state of heightened unrest.” Smaller aftershocks followed, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The series started with a 4.6 magnitude quake seconds before…


Ex-Maui Official, Businessman Plead Guilty for Hawaii Bribes

HONOLULU—A former Maui County official and the Honolulu businessman who paid him $2 million in bribes in exchange for more than $19 million in wastewater contracts each pleaded guilty Monday in one of the largest bribery cases ever prosecuted in Hawaii. Stewart Olani Stant, who was formerly a wastewater manager and the director of Maui’s…


Island Hopping the Aloha State: No Kids, No Car, No Agenda

By Marlise Kast-Myers From Tribune News Service In my early 20s, I worked as a nanny for a Swiss billionaire, caring for his four children, seven dogs and 14 homes. For five years I was entrusted with those little kinder as if they were my own, so much that one day the parents said, “We…


After Previously Striking Down California Gun Law, 9th Circuit Panel Vacates Its Decision

Instead of immediately enforcing the recent Supreme Court decision saying gun regulations must be based on historical traditions to be constitutional, a federal appeals court last week sent a case challenging California’s ban on long gun sales to people under 21 back to a district court. Critics say the U.S. Court of Appeals for the…


9th Circuit Panel Vacates Decision After Previously Striking Down California Gun Law

A federal appeals court last week sent a case challenging California’s ban on long gun sales to people under 21 back to a district court, instead of immediately enforcing the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision saying gun regulations must be based on historical traditions to be constitutional. Critics say the U.S. Court of Appeals for…