Organizers of the 16th annual Queen’s Challenge awarded top honors to Jake Sipes of Haʻikū and Kūlia Lind of Kīpahulu for ...

Merrie Monarch is in the air here in Hilo as it started a few days ago. There is a feeling of excitement in the air with all the activities and craft fairs around town and lots of activity this week.

Kipahuli farmer John Lind was the winner in the wetland kalo category, with E kūpaku ka ‘āina executive director, Penny Levin, at the East Maui Taro Festival in 2019. Photo courtesy EKKA The Queen’s ...

In the Kumulipo, the Hawaiian creation story, the goddess Ho'ohōkūkalani gives birth to a stillborn son, who is buried in the fertile soil. In her grief, she waters the soil with her tears, and a ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Big Island farmer Clarence Medeiros has grown taro for 50 years. At his Aina Ahiu farm in Kona, he consistently harvests big kalo from the rich black dirt on his property.

A 50-pound kalo corm was harvested at Aina ‘Ahiu Farm in South Kona last month, making it possibly the largest taro ever recorded. Clarence and Nellie Medeiros, who harvested the taro root, took the ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A fast-moving flood drowned loi kalo, taro patches, at the University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Ka Papa Loi o Kanewai last week during a second Kona low storm. The water swept ...