And once the clouds cleared, crews found snow drifts of up to 10 feet along a 1/2-mile stretch of the road. Officials say the snow and ice are exceptionally difficult for staff to clear. View this ...

11.08.24 - 8:00am. By siteadmin. On today’s show, I’ll speak to filmmaker Jalena Keane-Lee about her documentary “Standing Above the Clouds”. This is the ongoing story about the fight against the ...

And then, Tiegen was among 50 or so people who bundled up along Mauna Kea’s slopes Friday to see lava flowing down Mauna Loa, “peeking through swiftly moving cloud banks,” he said in a text ...

Mauna Kea’s summit soars 13,796 feet above sea level, evoking an ethereal feeling as fluffy clouds swaddle its cinder cones and blanket its reddish, almost Mars-like soil.

HONOLULU (AP) — For more than 50 years, telescopes and the needs of astronomers have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Native Hawaiians that’s also one of the finest ...