At the tail end of 2024, just before Christmas, a large and memorable swell popped up in the Pacific Ocean. In Hawaii, The Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational ran with the requisite 40-foot surf for ...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Surfers pack the waters around Huntington Beach Pier almost everyday, but now, right alongside them, the city has introduced outrigger canoe surfing. "A lot of ...

Native Hawaiians are known for the invention of surfing, but outrigger canoes are a huge part of modern culture too. It was outrigger canoes loaded with people, plants, and animals that traveled ...

On a blustery Friday morning before dozens of supporters and curious onlookers, Rocky McKinnon and his watermen buddies set off in Huntington Beach’s first outrigger surf canoe program. With a bit of ...

Rocky McKinnon looks around Huntington Beach and feels a kinship with Hawaii: in the countless surfers riding waves, the bronze statue of surfing icon Duke Kahanamoku greeting passersby near the pier, ...

Fringe, novelty, yet steeped in tradition. These might be a few ways to describe the current world of outrigger canoe surfing. But it wasn’t always this way. Riding waves in canoes is an ancient ...

In the lobby of the Outrigger Waikiki Beach Resort, a wooden koa canoe—more than 100 years old and named Kaukahi—reflects the lights of the room in its highly polished surface. It looks brand new, and ...

Polly Ralda recently found herself in a precarious position at Waimea Bay on Oahu. After catching a wave and returning to the lineup, a team of four making a drop on an outrigger canoe came straight ...

Santa is heading south and ditching his usual sleigh for a more traditional mode of island transportation for his annual visit to Waikiki Beach Santa is heading south and ditching his usual sleigh for ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Is there anything more iconic in Hawaiʻi that says Christmas is coming like Santa Claus canoeing onto the shore of Waikīkī Beach? For 18 years, Santa has traded in his sleigh for an ...