HONOLULU (KHON2) — In early 2025, new executive orders from Washington, D.C. put Native Hawaiian programs under a shadow of fear. What looked like a wave of federal changes against diversity, equity ...
The “Experience Hawai‘i Island Tour” at the fishponds of Kalahuipua‘a Historical Park on the Kohala Coast shows parts of the area that have been preserved. Tourism, once seen as a polarizing topic for ...
Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, left, the Hawaiian Council’s cultural ambassador; Tyler Iokepa Gomes, chief administrator of Kilohana, the Hawaiian Council’s tourism arm; and Mehana Hind, senior adviser to ...