Maui Business

The Hawai‘i cattle company offers 100% Hawai‘i-grown ground beef and is now available at Maui’s two Times Supermarket locations.

Science Camps of America will again be holding science camps for teens on Hawaiʻi Island this summer starting July 1.

The awards recognize organizations that demonstrate excellence in deploying Tyler software in novel and impactful ways that extend best practices.

The Raise the Wage Act would give more than 41 million low-wage workers a raise, increasing the wages of almost 30% of the US workforce.

The theme “Breaking Ground” focuses on how regenerative hemp farming, hemp foods, and other hemp products provide sustainability solutions for the next generation.

Mākena’s Keiki Kiaʻi Kai aims to increase youth self-confidence, physical conditioning, and ocean awareness through water safety, first aid and rescue protocol.

Lahaina Sunset won small club of the year for earning first place awards in public image, vocational, club and international service and first runner up awards for community and youth service.

Visitor spending on Maui in April 2017 was up 11.2% to $371.2 million. Visitor arrivals to Maui also rose 7% to 226,511.

The Health Department today issued Maui Grown Therapies a Notice to Proceed with manufacturing cannabis derivative products at its Upcountry Production Center.

Hawaiʻi received a “B” and was ranked the 5th highest in the nation for its medical marijuana program in a report issued by Americans for Safe Access.

The University of Hawaiʻi Maui College begins its next eight-week course on Dental Assisting Training through the EdVenture curriculum program on June 7, 2017.

Hawaii’s congressional leaders joined in introducing the Filipino Veterans Family Reunification Act to expedite the visa process for kids of Filipino WWII vets.

The White House ’18 budget proposes to eliminate funding for programs that further Habitat for Humanity’s efforts to address affordable housing crisis on Maui.

US Senator Brian Schatz was among those from Hawaii who denounced President Donald Trump’s budget proposal and immediately labeled it “dead on arrival.”

The Agriculture in the Classroom program devoted two days of education for second graders representing 15 schools and nearly 1,000 students.

The Maui Red Cross is seeking volunteers to join our disaster response teams on Maui, Lānaʻi and Molokaʻi.

Each year, an average of 650 cancer patients travel from the neighbor islands to Honolulu for life-saving cancer treatment.

The bill – a direct response to continued aggression from North Korea – seeks to strengthen and improve the reliability, capability, and capacity of US homeland missile defense.

The six primary beneficiaries of the 2017 event were Boy Scouts of America, Friends of the Children’s Justice Center, Hale Makua Health Services, J. Walter Cameron Center, Ka Lima O Maui and Lahainaluna High School Foundation.

The report says the high per capita debt is due to the high housing prices in Hawaiʻi and that 77% of consumers debt comes from mortgage debt.