WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — A steep trail to the remote Kalaupapa leprosy settlement in Hawaii has been closed indefinitely after a landslide took out a bridge along one of the switchbacks. Kalaupapa ...

KALAUPAPA, Molokai >> Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Molokai peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black-rock ...

As time machines go, Makani the mule is not a particularly swift or smooth ride as she lumbers down the trail, occasionally hanging her head over the sheer drop to get at some spectacularly placed ...

Apr. 18—John Arruda was sent to the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula in 1945 following his Hansen's disease diagnosis and Friday celebrated his 100th birthday in the Kalaupapa Settlement, where only eight ...

The state Department of Transportation is proposing to build a firefighting vehicle garage and install a new automated weather system at the Kalaupapa Airport, among the many changes that would help ...

KALAUPAPA, Hawaii — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black rock ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - A state House Committee considered a measure Wednesday that would make January “Kalaupapa Month.” Members of the community with deep connections to the Molokai ...

Kalaupapa, for more than a century a place of exile for people with Hansen's disease (as leprosy is called today), is a potent symbol of Molokai in general: physically beautiful, relatively ...

A former leprosy settlement in a remote part of Hawaii will reopen this month for the first time since the pandemic, when it closed to shield the few remaining patients, all of whom are over 80, from ...

There are two ways to reach Molokai’s isolated settlement of Kalaupapa. You can ride a mule or walk along the 3.2-mile trail that descends the 1,700-foot cliff along 26 switchbacks, or you can fly.

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - One of the last remaining residents on Kalaupapa has died. Clarence “Uncle Boogie” Kahilihiwa was one of the handful of Hansen’s disease patients who previously ...

Kalaupapa, Molokai -- At the edge of what are said to be the highest sea cliffs in the world, a sturdy metal gate marks the start of a trail that switchbacks steeply down the cliff-face to the beach.