Beat of Hawaii Blog

Visitors still line up for samples at Kauai Coffee. The employees pouring them aren’t sure how much longer they’ll have jobs.

“Island time” still means slow down and talk story. But now it also gets used for delays, broken systems, and problems in Hawaii that sit too long before anyone acts.

Hawaii’s promised electric seaglider with $30 island hopper that was going to replace interisland flights was damaged, is delayed, and now a military project.

Hawaiian and Alaska Airlines has a 30% off sale running through tomorrow, March 7, that includes transpacific and interisland.

The garlic hit us before we even got out of the car, and the line at the famous truck was already stretching across the gravel lot. What we found when we finally sat down with our plates was not quite what we expected.

Poipu Beach was where it ended. Two California fugitives wanted in connection with a deputy shooting chose one of Kauai’s busiest resort beaches as their hideout, and lasted nine days.

Hawaii visitors have long assumed that if a rental appeared on Airbnb, it was legal to book. A new bill now moving through Hawaii could change that, reaching directly into your reservation, your taxes, and even the state’s tourism authority.

Visitors at Opaekaa Falls say the first thing they see is someone jogging toward their car with a credit card reader in hand. The fee is $10 per vehicle plus $5 per person for what many describe as a 10-minute stop.