Hawaii’s American colonizers once banned the Hawaiian language in schools. Some Native Hawaiians tried to lighten their skin with lye. Many people believed Polynesian voyagers had si ...

The Hawai‘i Police Department’s Kona Community Policing Section and the Hawai‘i Island Police Activity League held their third annual Outrigger Youth Canoe Regatta on March 22 at Kailua Pier ...

Founded in 1980, the mission of Keauhou Canoe Club is to educate our youth, our membership and the community at large about Hawaiian culture, values and traditions. KCC provides paddling ...

Timi Gilliom, captain and builder of the voyaging canoe Mo‘okiha o Pi‘ilani, awoke from a midday nap in Hui O Wa’a Kaulua’s Front Street shop on Aug. 8, 2023, to the sound of a homeless ...

That vessel — a double-hulled sailing canoe called the Hokulea, after the Hawaiian name for the star Arcturus — would even influence the Disney blockbuster “Moana” decades later.

She thought, Maybe there’s a sailing club I can join. “I just Googled ‘sailing, Hawaii,’ and one of the things that popped up was the University of Hawaii sailing team,” she says.