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The team from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia is the winner of the inaugural Academic Sports Tournament held last week at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College. T

The 13th Festival of Pacific Arts & Culture (FestPAC), the world’s largest celebration of indigenous Pacific Islanders convenes on O‘ahu from June 6-16, 2024. More than 2,200 delegates from 27 Pacific nations will gather for 10 days of cultural exchange, appreciation, and celebration at various venues across the island. More than 50 festival events, including the opening and closing ceremonies, Festival Village, heritage dance and contemporary music performances, heritage arts demonstrations, visual arts exhibits, and more, will be free and open to the public.

Internet reliability and worldwide connectivity are expected to be enhanced with a $1 billion project to create a new fiber-optic undersea cable network, according to an announcement from Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke, leader of Connect Kākou, Hawaiʻi’s high-speed internet initiative, and Benji Robinson, director of Asia Pacific Network Planning and Acquisition for Google.

In its 2023 Annual Purpose & Impact Report, the World Surf League’s One Ocean Initiative celebrates its key environmental milestones, such as protecting and restoring 45,374 hectares of critical surfing ecosystems and planting 100,000 corals, while amplifying community involvement.

Hawaiian Airlines today announced it will temporarily suspend nonstop service between Honolulu and its Australia and New Zealand gateways starting later this month due to new government entry restrictions being imposed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hawaiian Airlines announced the appointment of Andrew Stanbury to the role of regional director for Australia and New Zealand, effective Jan. 2, 2019.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center Presents one of Australia’s leading performing arts companies to the MACC’s Castle Theater on Thursday, Jan. 19 at 7:30 p.m.

Seventeen year-old Cody Young of Makawao has advanced into the quarterfinals of the WSL World Junior Championship in Kiama, NSW, Australia. He took second pl…

A 33-year-old man from Perth Australia was airlifted from a ravine after falling 50-feet from a steep ledge at the Waihou Springs Forest Reserve in Olinda.

Hawaiian and Kīhei canoe clubs of the Valley Isle led crews to a 1-2 sweep, respectively, at the 2016 World Sprints on Tuesday at the week-long Vaʻa World Sprints.

Hawaiian Canoe Club of Kahului, Maui, captured third place for boys 19 and under in a 1,000-meter race. Hawaii master paddlers 50+ netted five medals.

History was made Friday, the last day of the 2014 World Championship Tour (WCT) as Gabriel Medina won Brazil’s first world surfing title on his way to finishing runner-up to Queensland’s Julian Wilson at the Billabong Pipe Masters on Oahu.

Hawaii will get additional airlift from Australia, later this year, when JetStar reinstates service from Honolulu to Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city.

Hawaiian Airlines is adding a new Brisbane service to accommodate an increasing number of Australian visitors.

Hawaiian Airlines announced it is offering a special one-way “Rescue Fare” for travelers stranded by today’s shutdown of Air Australia.

Air Australia announced today that it will suspend all flights immediately, including two from Honolulu to Brisbane and Melbourne.

Starting in May 2012, Hawaiian Airlines announced that it is upgrading its Sydney-Honolulu daily flights with a new and larger Airbus A330-200 aircraft.

Starting December 14, Hawaiian Airlines will be running daily year-round nonstop flights between Sydney, Australia, and Honolulu.

Despite the downturn in Japanese tourism in March, Hawaiian Airlines is meeting projections for slight gains in 2011 as it reports a 4% total passenger count increase for March over same period last year.

The Hawai’i Tourism Authority (HTA), the state’s tourism agency, announced that it will be issuing a request for proposals (RFP) for external tourism marketing management services on April 5, 2011.