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Hawai’i residents, 60 years or older, are invited to compete in the upcoming Kiwanis Kūpuna Spelling Bee.

The 34th Annual Kī Hō‘alu Festival returns to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center with live, in-person performances at the A&B Amphitheater starting at 2 p.m. on Sunday, June 29.

The Construction Industry of Maui awarded three students each a $25,000 scholarship to encourage education towards a career in the construction industry. The Bob Poulson Scholarship encourages Maui students to pursue a degree in the construction and design industry, away from Maui, then bring their acquired knowledge, skills and local hearts back to Maui to serve their communities. This year’s scholarship recipients are seniors, Macie Madaus, Kai Shively and Karissa Chapman.

Attorney General Anne Lopez has received a 10-page letter, with attachments, from Edward Halealoha Ayau who is the attorney representing Maui Police Detective Kamuela Lanakila Mawae. That letter addresses legal concerns regarding the status of Hawaiʻi as an occupied State and potential war crimes being committed by law enforcement officers, according to a news release from Ayau.  

Nearly a week since departing Hilo, Hawaiʻi Island, the voyaging canoes Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia are making steady progress on their sail to French Polynesia, the first international leg that resumes the Moananuiākea Voyage. After six days at sea, the canoes are on course and now approximately halfway to the equator.

Participants will help care for rare, endemic plants being propagated. 

The Just Hoop Maui camp drew 115 youths from the Mainland and Maui for a three-day run at Jon Garcia Gym at Baldwin High School. The camp coaches included Greg Oden, the No. 1 NBA draft pick in 2007 by the Portland Trail Blazers.

The Maui County Council anticipates a large turnout of public testimony on the highly controversial vacation rental phase-out bill. Already, the Council has received many written testimonies, then posted on mauicounty.legistar.com as of late Sunday. Bill 9 will be heard beginning at 10 a.m. Monday in the eighth-floor Council Chambers before the Housing and Land […]

Hawai‘i’s children are being hit hard by housing and job instability, according to the 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book, a 50-state report of recent data developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation analyzing how kids are faring in post-pandemic America.

Local postmasters and supervisors will be on hand to discuss job openings and assist candidates with applications for Assistant Rural Carrier (ARC) and Rural Carrier Associate (RCA) positions.

The Nisei Veterans Memorial Center will host a free screening of the award-winning animated film “In This Corner of the World” on Saturday, June 14, as part of its Monthly Movie Matinee series.

From June 6 to June 11, customers will receive 30% off all products and a free gift with every order, shipped directly from the company’s Kahului workshop.

The event will benefit the Hawai‘i Land Trust and the Lahaina Community Land Trust, two organizations working to protect land and support community-rooted stewardship on Maui and across the islands.

Coral reefs are creeping away from the tropics in response to warming oceans, but the pace is too slow to beat the heat and escape impacts of climate change, according to a breakthrough study published June 6 in “Science Advances”.

Recently, something has been observed “dancing” above the active eruptive vents inside Halemaʻumaʻu…Hydrogen flames!

The enactment of Act 167 designates September as Hawaiian History Month in the State of Hawaiʻi, a long-fought victory for Native Hawaiian advocates.

Still rebuilding in the wake of the August 2023 wildfires, King Kamehameha III Elementary School has received a $25,000 gift of essential classroom supplies from Subaru Hawaiʻi in partnership with the national nonprofit AdoptAClassroom.org. “We are honored to give back in a small way to the rebuilding efforts in Lahaina,” said Lance Ichimura, senior vice […]

Kaibigan ng Lahaina and Central Pacific Bank Foundation have announced the 2025 Lahaina Palengke Night, set for Sunday, June 22 from 4 to 8:30 p.m.

H.R. 2483, The SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Reauthorization Act, passed in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday, June 4, 2025, with a vote of 217-208.

Hawaiʻi Pacific University undergraduate students and faculty researchers are contributing to important new research aimed at reducing incidents of ciguatera poisoning, a serious, underreported illness caused by eating reef fish and invertebrates contaminated with naturally occurring marine toxins.