Officer Matthew VanAken was awarded the Police Commendation Medal, one of the department’s highest honors, for carrying a ...

In Hawaii, the Aiea Loop Trail is a beautiful ridge hike in the forested mountains above Halawa Valley on the island of Oahu. It has sweeping vistas and faraway views of Honolulu, but it also was ...

The nonprofit Friends of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park has received a $150,000 grant from the National Park Foundation and ...

The Koko Crater trail (blue No. 1 on the map) was closed after an 8-year-old fell 20 feet down a shaft on July 5. It reopened five days later with some areas of the summit off limits.

Rescue crews said the man had allegedly been hiking for about six hours but was unable to make it back down the trail.