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Alaska Air Group has agreed to buy rival Hawaiian Airlines in a $1.9 billion deal, setting up another potential regulatory battle in the second proposed airline merger in less than two years.Alaska would pay $18 a share for Hawaiian and…

Hawaiian Electric has known for years that extreme weather was becoming a bigger danger, but the company did little to strengthen its equipment and failed to adopt emergency plans used elsewhere, like being prepared to cut off power to…

It could take months for officials to identify what caused the fire in Maui last week. But some plaintiffs’ lawyers and investors have already begun to blame Hawaiian Electric, the state’s largest utility.The utility’s power lines and…

Native Hawaiian Urges Tourists To Stay Away Amid Fires This Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) woman, who requested to simply be identified as Aunty, is going viral on TikTok for urging tourists not to visit…

A professional Hawaii surfer known for shooting photos and videos of himself inside massive waves has died after a surfing accident in Indonesia.Mikala Jones, 44, was surfing on Sunday morning in the Mentawai Islands off the…

These days, lei culture in Hawai‘i is thriving. Estes points to her 2008 wedding as a prime example of its recent rise: “When I got married, I didn’t even wear a lei po‘o, but now everyone wears a lei po‘o. Lei culture is so prolific…

The current eruption of Mauna Loa on the Big Island of Hawaii is part of a long history of volcanic activity that formed the Hawaiian chain and is a vivid demonstration that the giant plates of the Earth's crust move over time.If you look…

Air cargo containers with the logo of Amazon are seen at Miami International Airport, in Miami, Florida, United States on June 16, 2021.Marco Bello | Anadolu Agency | Getty ImagesAmazon has hired Hawaiian Airlines to fly the first Airbus…

Ron Rice, a high school chemistry teacher who had been trained to explore for oil, but who instead made a fortune by concocting coconut-laced suntan lotion in a 20-gallon garbage can in his garage and seductively branding it Hawaiian…

Today an old haul road still runs along the western edge of Maui and John and I found part of it just north of an intersection off the main road in Kaanapali. This road, now derelict, may one day form part of the West Maui Greenway, a…