Beat of Hawaii Blog

A baggage screening equipment outage in Terminal 2 at HNL is prompting a new warning for travelers on most airlines.

Bad Hawaii weather doesn’t always mean canceling the entire Hawaii vacation. After two Maui cancellations and a real financial loss, we found another way forward.

Punalu’u Bake Shop has launched a fund for more than 50 employees and their families facing losses after Lala. Here’s how to donate.

With origins surprisingly hard to trace, Hawaiian Shirt Day lands on Statehood Day this year, opening a much bigger story about the aloha shirt.

Our Maui car rental price fell by more than half and BOH readers have reported even bigger savings. What changed, and what should travelers do differently?

Hawaii visitors and residents face another uncertain weekend. Just days after Lala, another storm could bring heavy rain, flooding, wind and waves.

The itinerary was accurate, organized and surprisingly convincing. What it couldn’t account for was how those carefully scheduled days would actually feel once visitors reached the islands.

Passengers praise the service on Alaska’s newly branded Dreamliners. Behind it, the Hawaiian flight attendants delivering that service say the workload has reached a breaking point.

Punalu’u Bake Shop drew nearly 700,000 visitors a year, but the response after its devastation by Hurricane Lala revealed something numbers could not.