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Central Pacific Bank has announced the launch of Business Express, a new online lending platform designed to provide small businesses in Hawaiʻi with fast, flexible and easy access to financing.

Gov. Josh Green, M.D., travels to the National Governors Association Annual 2025 Winter Meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18. He will meet with federal officials and leaders from across the country to foster bipartisan collaboration on critical policy issues affecting states and territories.

Rotarians from the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunrise and Kīhei-Wailea planted 13 fruit and palm trees at a residence in the Lahaina burn zone with support from the nonprofit Treecovery.

Lahaina Restoration Foundation’s Hawaiian Music Series of February will feature a performance by local musician Joshua Kahula, with an evening of soulful island music under the stars. The free, family-friendly concert will be held on Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on the Ocean Lawn at the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa in Kāʻanapali.

The Friends of Haleakalā National Park seeks volunteers who are enthusiastic and fit for a strenuous overnight service trip from Sunday to Tuesday, March 16 to 18, 2025.  These National Park Service volunteers will tent camp in the Hōlua Wilderness Area camping area in Haleakalā Crater.

Guided by their keiki friends and ʻOhana Alves of Alakani Farms, the Bows explore sustainable farming practices and Hawaiian values of mālama i ka ʻāina (caring for the land).

Mālama Maui Nui presents its Go Green / White Goods Recycling monthly event, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025 at Lahaina Civic Center.

Families from Ka ʻIwa Hoʻolaʻi, a hui (group) dedicated to celebrating and normalizing the use of Hawaiian language, traveled to Disneyland, bringing their culture and language with them.

With the theme “Building Solutions for Hawai‘i’s Housing Crisis,” Hawai‘i Community Lending held its annual meeting, Hui Waiwai, on Jan. 23, 2025. All proceeds from the event—totaling more than $37,000—go to support housing for local and Hawaiian families.

US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) joined colleagues in introducing a bill entitled ‘Supporting the Abused by Learning Options to Navigate Survivor(SALONS) Stories Act.’  The bill seeks to incentivize domestic violence awareness training for cosmetologists and beauty professionals.

Vivia by Ho‘okele Home Care, a locally owned provider of home health care services, announced Friday that Tracy Hart will serve as vice president of client navigation, and Mary Lester will serve as vice president of operations for Vivia by Ho‘okele Home Care.

Motorists are advised that eastbound and westbound lanes of Kaʻahumanu Avenue (Route 32) between Kāne Street and Lono Avenue will be closed for paving work associated with the Maui Palms Hampton Inn project from 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, February. 19 to 5:30 a.m., Thursday, Feb. 20.

A Maui County Council plan to contract its own study of the economic impacts of Mayor Richard Bissen’s proposed phase-out of Maui County vacation rentals has fallen to the wayside, and Council legislative analysts will conduct research in-house instead.

Construction of the permanent site for the Lahaina wildfire and debris is currently underway in Central Maui on recently purchased land and is expected to be completed in June.

Micah Kāne, CEO of Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, will become the next CEO of Parker Ranch, Inc. Hawaiʻi Community Foundation has outlined a six month transition period, during which it will name Kāne’s successor.

Kids at Kīhei Charter School are getting hands-on learning, studying plant life cycles and photosynthesis, researching soil types, experiencing working in a group, and developing responsibility skills as they learn how to care for and water their class garden.

The first-ever Lahaina Food & Wine Festival is set to debut Feb. 19-23, 2025, bringing together celebrated chefs, world-class wines, and unforgettable dining experiences in West Maui.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs has named Lise Vaughan-Sekona, Esq., as OHA’s community engagement director, filling another key position on its leadership team. Vaughan-Sekona reports to OHA Chief Operating Officer Kēhaulani Puʻu.

Maui Health recently held its second annual Maui Wound Healing Symposium on Jan. 31, 2025, at Maui Memorial Medical Center.

This year’s Ho‘omau will take place on March 29, 2025 and the two organizations are setting an ambitious goal to exceed the $60,000 raised in 2024.