Update at 7:46 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026: A winter storm warning is now in effect until 6 a.m. Tuesday (Jan. 6) for the ...

Gov. David Ige on Monday appointed several people, including some prominent Native Hawaiian activists, to a new board charged with managing Mauna Kea summit lands underneath some of the world's most ...

The Hoku Kea Observatory, the University of Hawaii’s educational telescope on Mauna Kea, is no more. The telescope was the first of five Mauna Kea observatories slated for removal as part of the ...

Dec. 22—The access road to the summit of Mauna Kea remains closed to the public today due to unsafe road conditions, officials said. This week's severe storm with 100 mph winds, sleet, freezing rain ...

HONOLULU — Astronomers have indefinitely stopped looking through 13 existing telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea on Hawaii island while protesters block the road downslope in an attempt to prevent ...

The beautiful and nearly 14,000 foot tall Hawaiian Volcano—Mauna Kea—looms over the landscape on the Big Island of Hawaii. The road to the summit of Mauna Kea in Hawaii has reopened to the public ...

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — Shane Palacat-Nelsen’s voice drops to a reverent tone as he tells the story of the snow goddess Poliahu who Native Hawaiians believe inhabits the summit of Mauna Kea, the highest ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Huge white sheets of snow being blasted off roadways by a giant snow blower is a scene you expect to see in states where snow plow operators work ― not in Hawaii. But it’s ...

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HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A Big Island nonprofit organization has proposed the development of a regular shuttle service to the top of Mauna Kea. A meeting Tuesday of the Maunakea Management Board included a ...