Hawaii News, Photos, Videos

Real EstatePublished: September 29, 2025

Michael Dell spent about $400 million to turn Four Seasons Hualālai from a lease into fee-simple ownership, taking control of 491 Hawaii acres that include 249 rooms, a Jack Nicklaus course, and the oceanfront resort where Silicon Valley unwinds.

by Neha Tandon Sharma

Billionaire Michael Dell, who went from a precocious child with small ventures to dropping out of college to run his PC startup, to building…

WatchesPublished: September 26, 2025

An eagle-eyed diving instructor found a Rolex that had been lost for nearly two years at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean in Kauai. He not only reunited the timepiece, still in one piece, with its overjoyed owner but also turned down a $2,000 reward for a simple ‘Aloha’.

by Sayan Chakravarty

A diving trip off Kauai’s south shore in December 2023 turned into an unforgettable story of loss, resilience, and honesty. Gregory Greer, a visiting…

Real EstatePublished: July 24, 2025

Legal battles or a million strong signature campaign, could not stop Mark Zuckerberg from slowly buying a mind boggling 2,300 acres on Hawai’s Kauai island and building tunnels, treehouses and a doomsday bunker

by Sayan Chakravarty

In 2014, Mark Zuckerberg arrived in Hawaii with a checkbook and a vision. He began by purchasing 700 acres of oceanfront land on Kauai’s…

CelebritiesPublished: June 27, 2025

Larry Ellison, who once struggled even to pay the electricity bills that kept his computers running, would never have imagined that one day he would, without hesitation, write a $300 million check to purchase a Hawaiian island three times the size of San Francisco

by Neha Tandon Sharma

How does a man start with nothing and end up the world’s second-richest man? The answer lies with Larry Ellison, who has not only…

CelebritiesPublished: May 12, 2025

Forget docking, residents of this Hawaiian island, where Mark Zuckerberg owns 1,300 acres of land, are so frustrated with billionaires and their yachts that they have passed a bill that bans all superyachts from even entering their waters

by Neha Tandon Sharma

The more Mark Zuckerberg, the world’s third-richest man, tries to belong in Hawaii, the more the islands seem to push back. His connection to…

Other StuffPublished: March 2, 2025

Larry Ellison spent $500 million on his grand plan to feed the world by growing lettuce on his private island in Hawaii. Forget the world; the Oracle billionaire’s plan has been an utter failure, as his space-age greenhouses have barely managed to supply produce to nearby islands.

by Sayan Chakravarty

Larry Ellison, best known as Oracle’s co-founder and the world’s fourth-richest man according to Forbes, poured over half a billion dollars into an ambitious…

Real EstatePublished: February 24, 2025

Join Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos in owning a slice of Hawaiian paradise with this $65 million Honolulu estate, boasting three newly built homes and an Olympic-sized lap pool with a spa. If sold, it could set a new record for Hawaii’s most expensive residential sale.

by Neha Tandon Sharma

If a home in Hawaii piques your interest, this news will have you grinning from ear to ear. A breathtaking legacy estate in Hawaii…

TransportPublished: January 28, 2025

A German-American businessman who made billions as a military supplier enthusiastically took his $250 million superyacht to Hawaii, only to be stopped at the shore by locals who did not want him to set foot on their island

by Neha Tandon Sharma

Money can buy some truly remarkable things, take superyachts, for instance. They are one of the most extravagant byproducts of billionaire status (in most…

Hotels and ResortsPublished: January 8, 2025

The surprising reason Bill Gates always stays at this $50,000-a-night suite at the Four Seasons Resort Lanai. The dreamy resort has a $90 million Nobu and was the venue for his wedding but the real reason is different.

by Neha Tandon Sharma

Centibillionaire Bill Gates’s marital status may have changed, but that does not mean that Four Seasons Resort Lanai no longer holds a special place…

CelebritiesPublished: December 1, 2024

Big-hearted Mark Zuckerberg has donated $1.5 million for Kauai’s first public school, set to rise just a mile from his own $270 million Hawaiian home, a lavish compound featuring two mansions with 30 bedrooms, 11 treehouses, and an underground tunnel network.

by Neha Tandon Sharma

It’s easy to criticize billionaires for enjoying their wealth, and Mark Zuckerberg, the world’s fourth-richest man, worth $198 billion, is no stranger to such…

CelebritiesPublished: November 26, 2024

Mark Zuckerberg, who owns over 1,300 acres of beachfront land in Hawaii, more than double the size of Central Park, has donated $626,000 to support affordable housing in Kaua’i.

by Neha Tandon Sharma

There’s work-life balance, and then there’s the billionaire’s art of balancing privilege with empowering others to live well. Among the empathetic few are Meta…