NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Hawaiian native Ryan Ozawa about a pair of bills in the state legislature that would make the shaka an official state gesture. Over the years, the shaka has ...

Where does the shaka come from? The prevailing story of the shaka’s origin traces back to a Native Hawaiian fisherman named Hāmana Kalili, who lived on Oahu’s North Shore in the early 1900s.

The owners of a south Salem storefront of the Hawaiian eatery The Shaka Brah are converting the restaurant into a bagel shop. The other locations of Shaka Brah in West Salem, north Salem and at ...