Sails made of matting drove this ancient forerunner of the modern catamaran swiftly through the seas, and long steering paddles enabled Polynesian mariners to keep it sailing on course.

The boat, known as a waka, was unearthed in the Chatham Islands. Researchers say it could be one of the most significant ...

I think, from that foundation, the canoe being there, they believe it. This is their canoe. This is not Hawaiʻi’s canoe. This ...

A California federal jury said on Monday that Disney's hit film "Moana" did not infringe an artist's copyrights related to ...

The new film “Sharing Aloha,” about the Polynesian Cultural Center and BYU-Hawaii, won the 2025 Zions Indie Film Fest ...

Hawaiʻi is honoring the 50th birthday of Hōkūleʻa, a symbolic voyaging canoe. When the vessel was first built and launched in ...

The population of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, interbred with Native Americans before Europeans arrived, despite ...

Both "Bucky," the story of a teenage boy from New Mexico who moves to Hawaii after his father's death, and "Moana," the tale of the daughter of a local chief set in ancient Polynesia, are essentially ...