When active, Kīlauea pumps out thousands of tons of volcanic gases, namely water vapor, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide.

HPR contributor Betsy Brown spoke with a USGS geologist during the last eruptive episode to find out what’s causing this ...

A two-vehicle collision on Kūhiō Highway in Kīlauea resulted in multiple injuries, a critical condition for a driver, and a ...

Lava is once again shooting skyward at Kīlauea's summit in Hawaiʻi, as Episode 27 of explosive fountaining was captured by ...

Hawaiian Volcano Observatory field engineers on July 10, 2025, visited monitoring stations downwind of the Kīlauea summit ...

Two woman were found dead “deep within” a large banyan tree more than a week after it toppled in Hawaii, police said. No foul ...

Update at 3:37 p.m. July 9, 2025: Episode 28 of the ongoing episodic summit eruption of the Big Island’s Kīlauea volcano ...

Check out Kilauea’s Halemaʻumaʻu crater, where the 29th episode of the ongoing eruption is underway. Lava began fountaining at around 5:15 a.m. on Sunday, and fountains have reached more than 200 ft.

For example, Kīlauea is on the edge of Mauna Loa, a much bigger and older volcano, and that means the rift zones of Kīlauea can spread out parallel to that boundary with Mauna Loa to the east ...

Update at 3:12 a.m. July 21, 2025: Hawai‘i Island police on Sunday afternoon recovered the bodies of two women from within a massive iconic banyan tree that uprooted and crashed down a week ago across ...

Kīlauea’s eruption on September 10 ended after six days and “was the briefest of the five eruptions that have occurred at the summit of Kīlauea since 2020,” the USGS said.

The Kīlauea volcano began erupting around 12:30 a.m. HST Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO). Hawaii's most active volcano is erupting once again.