Lahaina’s iconic Indian banyan tree has been off limits to visitors since the August 2023 wildfire tore through the historic ...

Clocks will spring forward soon. Here’s when DST starts, who skips it, and Americans’ opinions about time changes.

A study confirms that Homo erectus, the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived hundreds of thousands of years earlier than ...

HONOLULU , Feb. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- First Hawaiian, Inc. (NASDAQ: FHB) (“First Hawaiian” or the “Company”) announced today that Alan Arizumi, vice chairman of First Hawaiian, Inc. and First ...

Last week, legislators in New Mexico approved a measure to investigate the history and impact of forced and coerced sterilization of women of color in the state. Also in the news: abortion in Wyoming, ...

In the islands palaka is more than a pattern. To many, it's a memory threaded into our history. The bold checks are a symbol that bridges generations and keeps local ...

The 19th century relationship between King Kamehameha III and Kaomi Moe was largely forgotten across the islands until that chapter of the past was revived in ...

Going back further, John Dominis Holt’s “Waimea Summer” remains a beloved novel. There’s also S.N. Haleʻole, a contemporary ...

On a sunny day in Hilo on the east side of the island of Hawaii, Celeste Ha‘o and her eight children sit around a large circular mat depicting the hōkū pānānā — the Hawaiian star compass.

In 1800, the naval ship “Ganges” intercepted schooners carrying 135 enslaved people and brought them to Philadelphia.

Building the human story based on a few artefacts is tricky – particularly for wooden tools that don’t preserve well, or cave ...