Statewide news from the NOW network
Tourism remains central to Hawaiʻi’s economy and daily life. This hub collects visitor-industry reporting from Maui Now, Big Island Now and Kauaʻi Now, including hotels, airlines, attractions, destination management and community debates about visitor impacts. Coverage is gathered from the neighbor-island newsrooms in the NOW network; when those sites report on statewide tourism policy or Honolulu-based agencies, those stories appear here too. Follow each headline to the original article for the full report.
Big Island · Tourism
Update 4:48 p.m. Aug. 23: The baggage screening equipment outage at Terminal 2 of the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport has been resolved. The Hawaiʻi Department of…
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Big Island · Tourism
U.S. Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of 27 crewmembers from an Ecuadorian fishing vessel that was on fire Aug. 20 in waters more than 500 miles southwest of the Galapagos…
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