After more than five years of closure, Hawaii’s Kalaupapa National Historical Park will reopen this month with a new patient-founded tour, tighter access rules, and lingering questions. ByWill McGough ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the library at Windward Community College, an exhibit sheds new light on Kalaupapa. For 53 years, Ambrose Hutchison lived there as a Hansen’s disease patient. "He ...

KALAUPAPA (HawaiiNewsNow) - Kalaupapa National Historical Park on Molokai will reopen public tours this month. The state temporarily suspended tours to the former leprosy settlement about five years ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (AP) — 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 ...

Not so long ago, people in Hawaii who were diagnosed with leprosy were exiled to an isolated peninsula attached to one of the tiniest and least-populated islands. Details on the history of the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.