It sounds weird, but snow in Hawaii isn't unusual at all. That's because the islands have mountains. It even occasionally ...

Haleakala, a huge shield volcano on Maui. Snow is actually a fact of life each year over the islands' peaks. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, slumbering volcanoes on the Big Island, are the highest points ...

Heading to the Big Island and hoping to see real lava on your Hawaiian vacation? Scroll to find out everything you need to ...

Shannon Wianecki grew up in Hawaii and writes about the Islands regularly. Hilo sits between the sea, the often-snow-capped summit of Mauna Kea and the smoldering Kilauea volcano. Twice swept ...

The Mauna Loa volcano erupted on Dec. 6, 2022, as seen from Mauna Kea near Hilo, Hawaii. While Scripps has its own equipment at the observatory, that equipment is maintained by NOAA. "We depend on ...

A federal judge signaled he is likely to dismiss some claims in a dispute between Hu Honua and Hawaiian Electric.

There is also a secondary testing site on Mauna Kea, a second volcano about 35 miles north of Mauna Loa, but it, too, depends on NOAA staff to maintain the equipment. Asked how the loss of staff ...

The history of Jews in the Hawaiian Islands, when they arrived, what happened during World War II, and what their lives are ...

A startling finding beneath the magma is that Hawaii could power the whole United States. Can geothermal energy power the ...

Astronomers have discovered a panoply of new moons orbiting Saturn, bringing the ringed gas giant's total up to 274 moons—far ...