Some walked with stooped backs or leaned on canes, but as each Korean War veteran approached the new memorial dedicated Saturday for Maui soldiers of World War I, he stood up straight and gave a crisp salute.

Soon after the Catholic Church canonized Saint Damien of Molokai in October 2009, largely for his 19th century work at the leprosy or Hansen's Disease quarantine settlement on the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula, senior service missionaries in the Polynesian Cultural Center's Hawaii Mission Settlement began wondering how they might add that ...

Festivities at the state Capitol tomorrow will honor Father Damien De Veuster, whose work with leprosy patients led to his designation as a saint.

WAILUKU>> A mudslide has blocked off the only land route to the Kalaupapa leprosy settlement on Molokai for several weeks.

The past week of heavy rain created a mudslide that caused serious damage to a footbridge on the 'pali trail,' forcing the National Park Service on Tuesday afternoon to close the only land route to the Kalaupapa Hansen's disease settlement, which remains accessible by plane or boat.