The lack of visitors and lack of access to view current lava flows are the biggest challenges for lava tour companies at the moment. Jack’s Tours on the big island recently announced it was closing ...

(CNN) --The US Coast Guard extended the required safety zone surrounding active lava flows in Hawaii after a flying hunk of lava hit a tour boat and injured 23 people. The so-called lava bomb ...

Hawaii's youngest volcano, Kilauea, continues to erupt and flow into the sea — which means lava bombs. An airborne blob of volcanic lava hit a tour boat off the eastern edge of Hawaii's Big Island on ...

According to Coast Guard regulations, the safety zone covers 300 meters in all directions from where the lava enters the ocean, but some lava tour companies, like “Lava Ocean Tours,” had permission to ...

Lava Ocean Tours, the lava boat operator whose 23 passengers were injured Monday morning by lava bombs, had a prior history of passenger lawsuits and had been previously fined by the state for lava ...

A 20-year-old Illinois tourist who was hit by a lava bomb while on a tour boat near Hawaii's Kilauea volcano said Tuesday she thought the vessel was getting dangerously close before an explosion sent ...

HILO A second group of mainland residents who were aboard a lava tour boat last July when a lava bomb tore through the boat s roof is suing the tour company and the boat s captain. Named as defendants ...