Winter is on its way to Oregon, which must mean it's time to plan a trip to Hawaii. Little tops boarding an airplane in Portland and landing five hours later in the Islands. Watch out, though, because ...

Big Island Abalone, known for its gourmet product Kona Abalone, is the producer of premium abalone using deep-sea water drawn from off the Kona coast. This 10-acre coastal aquaculture facility, ...

KAILUA-KONA — The Big Island Abalone Corporation announced Thursday it is seeking a new investor for its farm at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority. ADVERTISING KAILUA-KONA — The Big ...

Abalone is grown commercially at Big Island Abalone at the National Energy Lab just north of Kailua-Kona. Agricultural tours on the Big Island of Hawaii, Dec. 1-6, 2013. (Terry Richard/The Oregonian) ...

Way out at the very end of the Municipal Wharf in Monterey, Art Seavey descends through a trapdoor, walks on a handmade network of slippery wooden planks and pulls a rope to hoist a dripping wire cage ...

Big Island Abalone, an aquaculture company located at the state Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority, plans to start conducting tours of its facility with a target date set in mid-October.

Mike Couffer’s body floats with the motion of the ocean, his eyes peering through his face mask at the rocky tide pools beneath the chilly water’s surface. He uses a flashlight to illuminate the rocks ...

A man and woman believed to be part of a black market abalone syndicate operating in Albany were fined a total of more than $10,000 at Albany Magistrate’s Court last Thursday. Picture by Department of ...