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Haneoʻo Road is closed between the Koki beach area (near the Huli Huli Chicken stand) and Hāmoa Beach due to a downed utility pole.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says tsunami wave heights across the state are now below advisory levels and are continuing to diminish.

By DAVID ALLEN AND CHIYOMI SUMIDA | STARS AND STRIPES Published: August 6, 2010 NAGO, Okinawa — An Okinawan diving instructor died Thursday after he was stung by a deadly reef stonefish off Koki Beach in Nago, according to an Okinawa prefectural spokesman. It was the first reported death caused by the venomous fish in 27 years, said Hayashi Uezato, a spokesman for the Okinawa Health Department’s pharmaceutical team. The 58-year-old man was giving tourists a diving lesson while standing barefoot in shallow water at 9 a.m., when he suddenly felt a sharp pain on the bottom of his left foot a...

Print Moored in the Pacific more than 2,400 miles from the mainland, Hawaii and its raw beauty have tempted U.S. travelers for decades. We often ponder “getting away from it all.” Perhaps never more than now, in this time of covid-19, do we crave isolation yet chafe at being cloistered in our homes. And so, after Hawaii lowered its own quarantine barrier Oct. 15, we set our sights on Maui, the state’s second-most-visited island. Hawaii had vigorously enforced a 14-day quarantine on visitors, but has since exempted those who provide a negative coronavirus test through approved partners...