Ask any of the big-wave surfers who put their lives at risk in the 2024-25 Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational, and they’d tell you it was honor just to compete in the 40 to 50-foot waves that crashed ...

Kona Brewing Hawaiʻi is bringing together some of Hawaiʻi’s most beloved voices including Native Hawaiian artist JT Ojerio ...

GOES-18 satellite image showing a strong Pacific storm system 1,300 miles north of Hawaii on Dec. 21, 2024. (CIRA / RAAM-B) The National Weather Service said satellite data is estimating seas as high ...

Hawaii has deep-ranging ties to surfing. Referred to many times as the birthplace of modern surfing, these islands are steeped in history and culture associated with wave riding. From ancient ...

The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational was held for just the eleventh time since its founding in 1984. Landon McNamara, a local of Oahu’s North Shore, won this year’s event. By Talya Minsberg When the ...

HILO — It was a beautiful spring day in Hilo town this past Saturday, as young surfers from the Hawaii Surfing Association (HSA) charged down the steps at Honoli’i Beach Park to compete in the final ...

Laguna Beach surfer Avalon Gall entered the US Open of Surfing longboard contest as a wildcard, never imagining she would make the podium with her first-ever big win. “It’s very surreal, I’m just ...

Learning to surf often includes a teacher gently pushing a rider’s board with the swell of a forming wave, which is kind of what Hawaii’s Legislature did this year to help expand surfing as a public ...

Poised on a surfboard and dwarfed by a tower of water some 10 times her size, fear is one of the first emotions that big wave surfer Laura Crane feels before she hurtles down a 60-foot behemoth. “From ...

To talk about the history of longboarding is to talk about the origins of surfing as a whole. Ancient Polynesian cultures rode boards that were thin, heavy and made from solid wood like koa. (Good ...