#Diamond Head

As the summer fun season heats up, a lot of young people and visitors will head toward the rocky shorelines and cliffs on the east side of Maunalua Bay for ocean play. So will first responders, to rescue them.

The Transpacific Yacht Club will hold the 53rd edition of the Transpac Race this July, a 2,225-mile sailing competition from Los Angeles to Honolulu.

Justin Shaffer’s MOD70 ORION was the first finisher in the 2023 Transpac, securing the sixth fastest elapsed time in the history of the race.

Diamond Head State Monument will reopen on Monday, June 12, 2023. The state Department of Land and Natural Resources reports that the water main outage that forced the closure of the park on Sunday has since been repaired.

New bilingual signage based on kānaka ʻōiwi (Native Hawaiian) knowledge and values at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa received the 2023 World Changing Ideas Award in the Art and Design category.

An estimated 40% of the people who showed up at the Lēʻahi “Diamond Head” State Monument early this morning did not have reservations, according to early findings reported by the state Department of Land and Natural Resources. Today, is the first of a new “adaptive management” plan to improve visitor experiences at popular site.

The iconic Lē‘ahi – Diamond Head State Monument, will become the third park unit in the Hawai‘i State Park system to require advanced reservations for out-of-state visitors, beginning on May 12, 2022.

This yearʻs field is set with 47 entries, including two Hawaiʻi-based entries: Gib Black’s Lurline and Bob Pethick’s Bretwalda 3.

Diamond Head State Monument on Oʻahu reopened at 6 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7 since closing exactly nine months ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Operations to remove illegal camps this week occurred on land under Division of State Parks jurisdiction off Kapaʻa Quarry Road, at Kapena Falls, and at Diamond Head State Monument.

As of Friday, Oct. 9, out-of-state residents and commercial operators will be charged higher fees for entering select Hawaiʻi State Parks.  The higher fees were approved by the Board of Land and Natural Resources in August.

No injuries were reported after six paddlers were rescued from a foundering canoe in Oʻahu waters earlier today

The state DLNR has received a $100,396 grant to install water bottle filling stations in 15 State Parks statewide over the next three years.

It is estimated that 50,000 people came to Magic Island to welcome home the Hōkūleʻa from her three-year worldwide voyage.

The Bailey House Museum and the Maui Historical Society are selling fine art reproductions of recently restored paintings by artist Edward Bailey.  The giclee reproductions, available for the first time, feature 19th century paintings of a grass house at Olowalu, a landscape of Wailuku and Iao Valleys, and a scenic print of Diamond Head in […]

The American Red Cross today announced the release an additional $9 million for earthquake relief in Haiti, bringing its total commitment so far to $10 million.  The agency says as many as three million people may be affected in varying degrees with relief efforts focusing on priority needs of food, water, temporary shelter, and medical […]