Maui Ocean Center’s new Kahoolawe exhibit, created in collaboration with the Kaho‘olawe Island Reserve Commission, seeks to raise awareness of the culture, geography, history and restoration ...

The Navy completed its handover of Kahoolawe Island, withdrawing personnel and equipment and transferring power to the state after a 10-year, $460-million cleanup of the former bombing site.

Somehow, the cats survived multiple bombings. The Hawaii island of Kahoolawe lies mostly uninhabited in clear view from Maui, just 7 miles away. The small, 45-square-mile island is sacred and ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - One week after flames were ignited on Kahoolawe, a large wildfire appears to have burned itself out with some help from heavy showers. The Maui Fire Department ...

When Walter Ritte Jr. and Noa Emmett Aluli stepped on to the shores of what was then the “target isle” of Kahoolawe 40 years ago, “we didn’t know what we were getting into,” Ritte ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Native life has returned to the island of Kaho’olawe after decades of work to restore the former military bombing range. The state is celebrating two Hawaiian Green ...

The bombing wasn't just offensive to Native Hawaiians — it was heartbreaking. "We had to save the island," said activist Walter Ritte. In 1976, Ritte and other members of the Protect Kahoolawe ...

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The Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission has launched a 14-month campaign to restore the Hakioawa Watershed and protect the island’s windward nearshore waters and reefs.

KAHOOLAWE (KITV4) -- The effort to return Kahoolawe to nature continues. There have been nearly 20 years of renovation since the military finished cleaning up munition on the island from when it ...

An old-school map of Kahoolawe. (Photo: Bettie Levy, courtesy of the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission) Historically significant as it may be, though, the island of Kahoolawe has one fatal flaw ...

He first visited Kahoolawe at age 15 during a trip with Kamehameha Schools. Soon after graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1986, he became the officer in charge of Kahoolawe from the early 1990s ...