HONOLULU (AP) – Hawaii lawmakers are considering a unique solution to the housing crisis: They want to make it possible for people to live in traditional Hawaiian grass huts. Sen. Suzanne Chun ...

The Army dedicated 20 new barracks at Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii’s Big Island on April 26, 2022, replacing Korean War-era Quonset huts such as those standing in the foreground.

Some people on the mainland thought all Hawaii residents lived in grass huts, danced hula, played the ukulele and surfed. David Kaapu sits in front of the Hawaiian-style home he built in the 1930s ...

HONOLULU. Hawaii lawmakers are considering a unique solution to the housing crisis: They want to make it possible for people to live in traditional Hawaiian grass huts.

Jim Cook said his family home in Makaha was a Quonset hut. Their Model A Ford pickup was parked in front. From 1941 to 1945 the U.S. military mass-produced more than 150,000 of the shelters ...

A $5.3 billion rail project is scheduled to begin this spring, offering powerful evidence of how much the island, a symbol of Pacific tranquillity, is changing.

Firefighters also say they’ve been living in the decades old Quonset huts since 2016 ― unable to move into a multi-million dollar renovated fire station because of a series of building blunders.

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Hawaii lawmakers are considering a unique solution to the housing crisis: They want to make it possible for people to live in traditional Hawaiian grass huts.