Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Associated Press

Residents have various shaka styles, and some say there’s no wrong way to shaka.

For many of the fans, coaches and the players, being back at the stadium was the closest thing to feeling at home in the months since the Aug. 8 fire.

Officials urged residents not to sift through the ashes for fear of raising toxic dust.

Anyone not living in a concrete house was warned to seek safety elsewhere and emergency shelters began to fill ahead of what could be the most powerful storm to hit the U.S. Pacific territory in two decades.

Two Native Hawaiian men were sentenced Thursday for a federal hate crime in the brutal beating of a white man who tried to move into their remote, traditional fishing village.

Her lineage included the royal family that once ruled the islands and an Irish businessman who became one of Hawaii’s largest landowners.

The news was a welcome reprieve for motorists who depend on the Big Island road.

Not all Native Hawaiians feel the need to make a trek to see the lava, but those who do may chant, pray to ancestors or honor the moment with dance.

Jurors on Tuesday will continue deliberating whether a mother is guilty of assaulting her 15-month-old daughter during a flight from Alaska to Hawaii.

A Hawaii mother accused of assaulting her 15-month-old daughter during a flight from Anchorage to Honolulu didn't do anything that went beyond "proper parental discipline," her federal public defender told jurors Wednesday.

Aisla Jackson allegedly entered the home with a key left near the back door, grabbed a knife from the kitchen and stabbed Catherine Walker multiple times in the upstairs bedroom where she slept.

A stolen totem pole that went from the garden decor of two golden-age Hollywood actors to the basement of a Hawaii museum has been returned to Alaska tribal members.

A battle is poised to unfold on a sacred Hawaii mountain where plans call for construction of one of the world's largest telescopes. Work is set to resume Wednesday on the Thirty Meter Telescope atop the Big Island's Mauna Kea, but protesters say it tramples on land sacred to Native Hawaiians and they will try to stop the construction peacefully.

A mother pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that she physically and verbally assaulted her 15-month-old daughter during an Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Honolulu.

After weeks of fitful advancement, the lava from Kilauea volcano crossed a street on Sunday in Pahoa Village, considered a main town of the Big Island's isolated and rural Puna district.