The Hawaii Health Department has restored visitor privileges to former Hansen’s disease patients and resident staff at Kalaupapa who were prohibited from seeing their families and friends for more ...

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 ...

Hawaii News Devoted faithful yearn to visit Kalaupapa, where saints cared for leprosy patients By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Associated Press Dec. 26, 2023 1/5 ...

KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (AP) — 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 ...

The isolated community of Kalaupapa on Molokai's north shore has reported its first case of COVID-19, the state Department of Health said Thursday morning. COLLEEN UECHI photo An adult resident of ...

KALAUPAPA, Hawai‘i — 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 (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 ...

Clarence “Boogie” Kahilihiwa is pictured with Valerie Monson, former executive director of Ka ‘Ohana o Kalaupapa, in 2018 at Kalaupapa Bookstore. Kahilihiwa died in 2021 and was a champion of the ...

Gov. David Ige signed five bills into law Wednesday focused on acknowledging and correcting inequality in the state. Senate Bill 697 designates each January as Kalaupapa Month, in commemoration of the ...

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, HawaiiKALAUPAPA, 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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (AP) — Kalaupapa beckoned ...