Traditional dances, Polynesian food, and a celebration of culture return to downtown Stockton for the Te Fa'a Nō Te 'Ori 2025 Tahitian Dance Festival. The three-day festival begins on Friday, Oct. 17, ...

Vaimiti Teiefitu is a Tahitian longboarder – one of the few who has opted to ride a traditional form of surf craft despite her local waves being quite different than the kind longboarders usually seek ...

The art of outrigger canoe surfing is an ancient Polynesian tradition, with British explorer Captain James Cook first encountering Tahitian natives riding waves in boats as early as 1777. In his ...

TEAHUPO’O, French Polynesia (AP) — Peva Levy said he felt a powerful, natural energy known as “mana” when he surfed Teahupo’o’s waves on a piece of plywood for the first time, rushing down a crumbling ...

Socialite women on the French Riviera had the brilliant idea last winter of dressing for the beach in flowered brassieres and wrap-around shorts, supposedly copied from the modest, knee-length pareu ...

Tahitian prawns, also known as giant freshwater shrimp, can be found in streams and waters off all Hawaiian Islands since their introduction to the state in 1956. In 1956 state workers brought to ...