We're on Mauna Loa today because our live signal would affect the eleven working telescopes atop Mauna Kea. That's the mountain we visited recently, where a mountain of controversy is brewing that is ...

In Hawaii, there’s a unique form of protest now: a native dance, as the video above of demonstrations against an observatory being built on Mount Mauna Kea, the tallest peak in Hawaii, demonstrates.

HONOLULU --A construction permit should be granted for a giant telescope planned for a Hawaii mountain summit that some consider sacred, a hearings officer recommended Wednesday. Retired judge Riki ...

If you measure from base to peak, Mount Everest is not the tallest mountain in the world. That title actually belongs to Mauna Kea, located on the Island of Hawaii. Though Mauna Kea reaches just ...

HONOLULU (AP) — For more than 50 years, telescopes and the needs of astronomers have dominated the summit of Mauna Kea, a mountain sacred to Native Hawaiians that’s also one of the finest places in ...

Common knowledge tells us that Mount Everest is the world's highest natural point - but one peak in Hawaii trumps it by a country mile. Mount Everest is most definitely the world's tallest mountain ...

A group of elderly demonstrators have been arrested as thousands of protesters tried to stop the construction of a telescope on a mountain considered sacred to some Native Hawaiians, Hawaii county ...