Magnitude 5.7 quake rattles Hawaii’s Big Island
By Audrey McAvoy and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher | Associated Press HONOLULU — A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck the world’s largest active volcano on Friday — Mauna Loa on the Big …
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Public utilities fall short on wildfire risk mitigation
Five years and 2,500 miles apart, fires devastated thriving communities — and major U.S. utility companies stood at the center of the infernos. It’s a story increasingly familiar in the …
Sam Altman, CEO of SF’s OpenAI reportedly weds, possibly in Hawaii
Sam Altman, left, and Oliver Mulherin attend A Year In TIME at The Plaza Hotel on Dec. 12, 2023, in New York City. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for TIME Sam Altman, the …
Mavericks surfers from around the globe come to chase epic waves
That size of the waves drew surfers from around the globe to the Bay Area, with KGO-TV reporting that locals met people from Portugal, Brazil, Tahiti and Hawaii on Thursday. …
Maui’s economy really needs tourists. It’s complicated.
By Audrey McAvoy | Associated Press LAHAINA, Hawaii — The restaurant where Katie Austin was a server burned in the wildfire that devastated Hawaii’s historic town of Lahaina this summer. …
200 kids, dogs and Mickeys a day: Inside Disneyland’s silhouette shop
Artist Bob Carlson at the Silhouette Studio in Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif., on Nov. 30, 2023. Ashley Hayes-Stone If you’re not looking for it as you stroll down Main Street …
Mark Zuckerberg’s Hawaii home could be one of the largest private construction projects ever
FILE – This Jan. 15, 2017, file photo, shows public Pilaa Beach, center, below hillside and ridge top land owned by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, near Kilauea on the north …
Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Top-Secret Hawaii Compound
The cost rivals that of the largest private, personal construction projects in human history. Building permits put the price tag for the main construction at around $100 million, in addition …
Pearl Harbor survivors return to honor those who perished
By Audrey McAvoy and Claire Rush | Associated Press PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — Ira “Ike” Schab had just showered, put on a clean sailor’s uniform and closed his locker aboard …
Questions remain about longterm health effects of Maui fires
By Rebecca Boone | Associated Press When Daniel Skousen scrubs at the ash and soot covering his Maui home, he worries about the smell. What chemicals created the burning-trash-barrel scent …