Volcano News

Chaminade University inadvertently posted confidential information, including Social Security numbers, of thousands of students on its Web site for months, school officials say.

Two areas have been nominated for inclusion in the Hawaii Natural Area Reserves System : 'Ilio Point on Moloka'i and a parcel next to the existing Kahauale'a Natural Area Reserve on Hawai'i. Please attend the public hearings next week and/or submit written testimony in support of these additions.

Creeping lava is no longer threatening a public viewing area near Kalapana, but officials said there's still plenty of activity from the Kilauea eruption, now in its 27th year.

VOLCANO >> Civil Defense officials on the Big Island believe the trailhead of the Kalapana viewing area is safe from a tongue of lava from erupting Kilauea volcano.

KEAUKAHA, Hawaii - More than a century after Father Damien died among his brethren on a forgotten peninsula on Moloka'i, the memory of his sacrifice remains strong.

Hawaiian legend says Pele, the volcano goddess, set fire to her sister Hiiaka's ohia forest and killed her lover in a jealous rage.

If an umpire does a good job calling a baseball game, he probably goes unnoticed.

The U.S. Geological Survey plans an ambitious $3.3 million program to upgrade aging monitoring and telemetry equipment at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory.

VOLCANO, Hawaii >>A minor earthquake has rattled the south flank of Kilauea volcano.

Each Sunday in August, the 'Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawai'i, in Hilo, is offering half-off admission.

VOLCANO, Hawaii >>A minor earthquake has rattled the south flank of Kilauea volcano.

It comes on the Kona winds - the dreaded yellow-brown haze of vog that makes eyes burn and lungs protest.

An Oahu grand jury returned an indictment yesterday charging a 26-year-old woman with murder in the death of her 7-week-old nephew.

Scientists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and the University of Hawaii used lasers to look inside and measure the depth of the vent in Halemaumau Crater.

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Few think of plum picking as an Island botanical experience, but it's an annual event at Koke'e State Park on Kaua'i, now at the beginning of palama harvesting season.

The Hawai'i Police Department is searching for four persons wanted on bench warrants.

The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says the rock falls within the Halemaumau vent began Tuesday, producing a seismic signal equivalent to a magnitude-2.4 earthquake.

"Back in the Day," appearing every Sunday, takes a look at articles that ran on this date in history in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, Hawaii's oldest continuously published daily newspaper.

Lopaka: In hard times like these, private businesses have to cut back, and the Big Island has one of the highest unemployment rates in the state.