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Byline: Kelly Kasulis Cho A Japanese telescope spotted a glowing, whirlpool-like formation spinning through the night sky above a volcano in Hawaii earlier this month, shortly after SpaceX launched a [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci You don't often expect to hear 'Hawaii' and 'fire danger' in the same sentence, but wildfire concerns have been very real in the Aloha State in recent [...]

Byline: Jason Samenow The Kona storm, which drenched the Hawaiian Islands between Saturday and Tuesday, was finally pulling away Wednesday morning, after producing record-setting rains, flooding and mudslides, mountain snow [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci A major cold-season Kona storm system is bringing significant precipitation totals to Hawaii, including up to 25 inches of rain, a foot of mountain snow and hurricane-force [...]

Byline: Paulina Firozi A brush fire that scorched at least 40,000 acres on Hawaii's Big Island is the largest ever on the island, officials said. Mandatory evacuations forced residents in [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci Hurricane Douglas was widely advertised as having the potential to become only the third landfalling hurricane on record in Hawaii, but Douglas apparently had other plans. In [...]

Byline: Ian Livingston and Andrew Freedman Hurricane Douglas was moving perilously close to the shores of Hawaii on Sunday and may make landfall in one or more of the islands [...]

Byline: Ian Livingston Hurricane Douglas is rapidly closing in on Hawaii. While it has weakened below major hurricane status, the current forecast brings it on a dangerous trek through the [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci and Jason Samenow Hurricane Douglas peaked as a powerful Category 4 Thursday night over the central Pacific Ocean and is barreling westward toward Hawaii. The dangerous storm [...]

Byline: Matthew Cappucci For the second time in two weeks, an impressive 'Kona Storm' brought extreme downpours and severe weather to parts of Hawaii. Kauai, the nation's northwesternmost populous island, [...]

Byline: Jason Samenow While all eyes along the East Coast are on Tropical Storm Florence, forecast to restrengthen and become a hurricane threat next week, Category 3 Hurricane Olivia is [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui and Courtney Teague KONA, Hawaii - After Hurricane Lane rapidly weakened to a tropical storm, officials in Hawaii started the process of getting back to normal while [...]

Byline: Greg Porter Tropical Storm Lane continued a weakening trend overnight as the mountainous and rugged terrain of the Hawaiian islands ripped apart the former Category 5 hurricane. Despite the [...]

Byline: Jason Samenow Over two-and-a-half feet of rain have fallen on Hawaii's Big Island as Hurricane Lane unloads an unrelenting deluge. The downpours have spread over Maui, Oahu and Kauai, [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui, Breena Kerr and Courtney Teague KONA, Hawaii - A powerful hurricane that already has dumped more than two feet of rain on parts of the Big Island [...]

Byline: Lynh Bui, Breena Kerr and Courtney Teague KONA, Hawaii - Paradise looks different when a fierce hurricane is raging along its shores. Glittering beaches have emptied, the usual bustle [...]

Byline: Jason Samenow Dangerous Hurricane Lane is pushing ever closer to the Hawaiian Islands and has already begun unloading excessive amounts of rainfall on the Big Island. Water from both [...]

Byline: Angela Fritz A powerful hurricane is spinning east of Hawaii this week, heading almost due west. Forecasters expect Hurricane Hector, which was nearly a Category 5 on Monday, to [...]

Byline: Fred Barbash There were many of good deeds on the Hawaiian island of Kauai over the past week and one particularly bad one. Hawaii's stunning 'garden island' is not [...]

Byline: Chelsea Harvey A new study of the Hawaiian Islands has made a disturbing, if not entirely surprising, discovery: Hawaii's paradisal beaches have a major plastic problem. The results of [...]