MAKAHA (HawaiiNewsNow) - A long-time surf competition this weekend is drawing crowds to a shrinking beach. And it’s drawing attention to the growing battle with coastal erosion in the islands.

Always crowded every day, but extremely jammed on weekends. Expect to get dropped in on frequently -- that's just the Makaha culture. Easy. Makaha Beach Park, parking right off the road.

MAKAHA, Hawaii (Island News) -- Andrea Cortez, known as aunty China, was just 45 years old when her family says she was brutally beaten after stopping to talk with a friend on the side of the road ...

Makaha has long been known as a beach where haoles, a Hawaiian term for white people and other outsiders, venture at their peril. Located on Oahu’s west coast, far from the glitzy North Shore ...