It looks like the Swiss Alps at the top of the Big Island of Hawaii's two highest peaks Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. Flakes began falling Thursday night at elevations as low as 8,000 feet, and up to a ...

It's hard to fathom that the first golf course built on the Big Island of Hawaii, Mauna Kea Golf Course on the Kona side of the island, is arguably still the best. Built on the fields of lava by the ...

Mauna Kea is a 14,000-foot shield volcano in Hawaii’s Big Island Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent Notifications can be managed in browser preferences.

Kealoha Pisciotta, a cultural practitioner and longtime activist, sits on lava rock part of the way up Mauna Kea while giving an interview on the Big Island of Hawaii, on Saturday, July 15, 2023.