The National Park Service started free guided tours of Honouliuli, Hawaiʻi's largest WWII incarceration and prisoner-of-war camp, this year. Every remaining 2026 date is full, but the waitlist is open. Here's how to sign up, what the tour involves and…
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Honolulu Coffee started as a single downtown coffee bar in the early 1990s. Today it grows Kona coffee on its own farm, bakes croissants…
Waiʻanae Moku Made brings its holiday Kalikimaka Edition to Kalanihoʻokahā Community Learning Center on Saturday, Nov. 14, from 4 p.m. It's an evening mākeke…
Mōʻiliʻili pianist Christina Sochor, 23, celebrates her debut album "Not a Phone in Sight," jazz and neo-soul takes on video game classics, with a…
The inaugural Nā Lehua Marketplace & Festival runs Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6–8, at the Hawaiʻi Convention Center, with hundreds of local vendors, live…
Hawaiʻi's Finest's Black Friday Mākeke fills the Neal S. Blaisdell Exhibition Hall Friday through Sunday, Nov. 6 to 8, with more than 250 local…
The Collective Cafe, a new coffee and matcha bar that shares a space with The Collective Barbershop on North King Street, opened this week…
A renovated corner store on Cooke Street, Queen's Deli Market now makes six-inch and footlong deli sandwiches on weekdays from 11 a.m. to 7…
The Mānoa favorite opened its third Oʻahu location on North King Street in Kalihi on Nov. 1, with the same family-recipe menu, weekend Mexican…
The Hawaiʻi Food & Wine Festival wraps up on Oʻahu Nov. 5 to 8; the two big grand tastings are sold out, but tickets…
Ala Moana Center's 50-foot Big Santa is up, kicking off a holiday season that includes Santa photos from Nov. 13, a Letters to Santa…
The free, all-day 4th annual Kimchi Day Festival Hawaiʻi takes over Makiki District Park on Saturday, Nov. 14, with a kimchi-making demo, a homemade…
The Kāhala Hotel & Resort’s Sunday brunch buffet now runs at Plumeria Beach House from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., with a 20% kamaʻāina…
Starting Wednesday, Nov. 4, Don Don Donki in Kapolei sells a $9.99 chicken tenders plate, with about a pound of tenders, every Wednesday from…
Katsu Zen now serves a Japanese breakfast at its solo-dining counter plus a $5 afternoon bento, and The Dotted Line has brought back Girl…
Drip Studio HNL, the specialty coffee house on Fort Street Mall, landed No. 2 on USA Today’s 10Best Best Independent Coffee Shops list for…
For more than three decades, Mitsu-Ken Okazu & Catering has drawn early-morning lines in Kalihi for its glazed, boneless garlic chicken and its packed…
Big City Diner closed its Windward Mall restaurant on Oct. 31 after 11 years; here's the 28-year story of the locally owned diner, where…
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Before it was Oʻahu's favorite fall pumpkin patch, Waimānalo Country Farms spent decades as a family truck farm, a melon farm and a corn…
Your ballot has to reach elections officials by 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 3. Here's where Oʻahu voters can drop it off, vote in…
