Maui

Federal officials say a yearling humpback whale off Maui has been freed from a life-threatening entanglement in mooring gear and a plastic trawling buoy.

Hawaii Gov. David Ige declared a state of emergency after heavy rains on the islands caused flooding and landslides.

A Hawaii family has won a place with the Guinness World Records for the world’s heaviest avocado.

Five whales died, including four that were euthanized, after a mass stranding Thursday on a beach on the Hawaii island of Maui. Ten melon-headed whales were found stranded alive early in the morning on Sugar Beach in the coastal resort community of Kihei. Hours later, a whale calf believed to belong to the same social group was found dead on...

More than 600 people on the Hawaii island of Maui were in shelters after a large brush fire prompted thousands of evacuations and diverted some flights in the region, officials said Thursday. The blaze had reached an estimated 3,000 acres and was not contained as of Thursday night, NBC News reported, citing comments from a news conference held by the...

More than 600 people on the Hawaii island of Maui were in shelters after a large brush fire prompted thousands of evacuations and diverted some flights in the region, officials said Thursday. The blaze had reached an estimated 3,000 acres and was not contained as of Thursday night, NBC News reported, citing comments from a news conference held by the...

Amanda Eller had an emotional reunion on Monday night with the men who rescued her after she was lost for 17 days in a Hawaiian jungle, hugging them tight in thanks for saving her life. “You guys are the heroes,” Eller said during a community gathering. “I am not the hero, I am just the girl sitting here healing my...

According to a prominent Harvard University professor, it’s possible that there was an extraterrestrial flyby last year. There are 100 billion galaxies in the universe, and in each galaxy there are approximately 100 million stars. Some of those stars are similar to our sun, and around those “suns” are planets, which are likely very similar to Earth. It’s possible that...

According to Harvard University Astrophysics professor and department chair Avi Loeb, there is likely life outside of our planet and he says, “we are not special. When we thought that we were at the center of the universe we were proven wrong. The sun does not move around the earth.”

A judge on the Hawaiian island of Maui has handed down an unorthodox sentence to a man who pleaded no contest to violating a protection order preventing him from contacting his ex-girlfriend. Judge Rhonda Loo ordered Daren Young on Friday to write 144 compliments about his ex-girlfriend, in response to the 144 “nasty” text messages and calls that he is...