Beat of Hawaii Blog

Hawaii says it can’t close Maui’s only jet runway to rebuild it, but the runway is wearing out after 12 repair projects since World War II. What the state may do instead is bigger than most travelers realize.

Five more coconut rhinoceros beetles were found on Maui. A Baldwin lifeguard’s warning now feels harder to dismiss, even if the island is not infested.

While Hawaiian rolls out three Moana planes this summer, the deeper story is Hawaiian’s biggest identity moment of the year, arriving through this Disney partnership.

Two programs, two very different answers. Atmos has the most flexibility behind a $395 card, while United just made family mile pooling free. Which one works best depends on where you’re trying to fly.

Cirque du Soleil built its first show around Hawaii and just released music sung entirely in Hawaiian. We saw ‘Auana, and the question of whether a global spectacle can carry a culture this well is more interesting than we expected.

A Kauai community used years of Haena visitor fees to build a finished state park restroom, then handed it over complete. As Hawaii breaks ground on its own taxpayer-funded version on Maui, the contrast reveals who is really building the parks visitors pay to enter.

The famous Hawaii beach is not always the one we’d choose anymore. Here’s the resident swap, island by island, when the reservation, parking, or gate fee changes the vibe.

We went to Barcelona expecting a warning for Hawaii. What we found was more complicated: a city still welcoming visitors, even as it redraws the line around how many is too many.

Hawaii ranks among the worst in the country for something no traveler ever thinks about when they book a flight here. It happens low over the airport, in the seconds that matter most, and the feds just drew a line.