Last year, 73 rescues were recorded in the Kalalau area, which is the highest total in the past five years, the Kauai Fire Department told SFGATE in an email. This year, from Jan.

Albert Kekua “Pepito” Makuaole (1925-2007), of Kauai, one of the greatest mountain men of his time, a man who knew every ...

Big Island resident, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo grad and “Chief of War” set geologist Michelle Mazzetti is talking about ...

HA‘ENA (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Kauai Fire Department (KFD) rescued a 57-year-old woman visiting from Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the Hanakapi‘ai Trail in Ha‘ena on Saturday. According to a preliminary ...

The U.S. Coast Guard joined the search for a 44-year-old diver who vanished in the waters off Hawaii’s island of Kauai. Bryson Higashi was last seen around 4:30 p.m. local time Tuesday near Hanalei, a ...

Tucked among exclusive real estate, a family’s 18-foot-wide strip of land is not just an oceanside parking spot. It’s their legacy. Moriches Bay, left, is on one side of Dune Road in Westhampton Beach ...

Kauai police say a visitor died Thursday evening after reportedly jumping from a cliffside into the ocean at Shipwreck Beach. The swimmer has been identified as Jerome Hill, 39, of North Carolina.

Many travelers enjoy going to the beach, and some choose to bare it all at a nude beach. Nudist beaches, where swimsuits and clothing are optional, have been around for nearly a century, with growing ...

Volunteers, including two families of beachgoers, responded to a hotline report of a 1,150-pound net mass on Kahili Beach on Kauai on April 10. They pulled it out of the ocean before removal. While ...

Kauai is the smallest, northernmost and geologically oldest of the Hawaiian islands and boasts one of the most stunning island settings in the world. Just 552 square miles in size, the Garden Island’s ...

When the rat-ta-tat-tat of toere and other Tahitians sound on Aug. 2 and 3 at the Kapaa Beach Park, the Heiva i Kauai, or Tahitian festival on Kauai, will be celebrating its 23rd anniversary in ...

From an island off of North Carolina to a coastal village on Japan’s Izu Peninsula, these are the most beautiful beach towns in the world. Lydia Mansel is a writer with more than eight years of ...