Hurricane Lowell's track shifted west of Kauai, but we're preparing more than we have before. Here's what we're seeing on ...

Unprecedented torrential rain of a foot or more hit Kauai late last night and into this morning. Beat of Hawaii’s garage was inundated with massive water and mud flow today. The storm led to ...

Hawaii weather can force expensive decisions before a forecast is ever settled. With small islands surrounded by the vast Pacific Ocean, increasingly disruptive weather, and at times sharply different ...

Sixty-five Hawaiian and Alaska flights are canceled across Hawaii today as Tropical Storm Lala approaches. Our Kauai-to-Maui flight Sunday, the one that gets us to Maui for work next week, is still ...

Long before Rob Kvidt became co-founder and editor of Beat of Hawaii, travel was already an obsession. Growing up first in rural Eastern Washington and later in Olympia, he collected travel brochures ...

Jeff Tucker is co-founder and editor of Beat of Hawaii, where he is the front-line researcher behind the stories we publish. He finds and initially vets the majority of the subjects we consider, ...

We’re scheduled to fly to Maui on Sunday, right in the window when Tropical Storm Lala could still be impacting the islands. We’re not doing it for the story, and we’re not trying to prove anything ...

We use Waymo when we travel, but Hawaii still doesn't have it. We found that Hawaii DOT has already been talking with Waymo ...

We returned to Hamoa Beach on Maui remembering that Ernest Hemingway loved it. Then we tried to evidence he was there and ...

The southernmost bakery in the United States, Punalu’u Bake Shop, was among the businesses devastated when Hurricane Lala tore through the southern Big Island. Floodwater entered the Naalehu property, ...

We’ve all had the experience of going back to a favorite Hawaii place and finding exactly what we remembered, including eve the parts we hoped might have changed. The parking is still overflowing, ...