Lahaina Cannery is excited to welcome residents and visitors back for a joyful holiday season filled with Santa Photos, holiday shopping, and live island-style entertainment

Mālama Maui Nui invites the public to its next Talking ʻŌpala seminar, "Restoring the ʻĀina," on Tuesday, Dec. 16 from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Four Seasons Resort Maui Ballroom.

Hawaiian Electric will be using unmanned aircraft, or drones, for aerial inspections of its infrastructure in the ʻUkumehame area of West Maui from Monday, Dec. 1 to Friday, Dec. 5, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., weather permitting.

Pacific Whale Foundation has opened registration for its winter Ocean Camp, a week-long science and culture program for students in grades 2-5. This year's theme, "Marine Mammal Mania," will focus on whales, dolphins and seals.

As the first and only coral nursery on Kauaʻi, this project represents an essential contribution to Hawaiʻi’s broader restoration network and long-term reef stewardship.

University of Hawaiʻi astronomers have revealed the history of a distant red giant star after analyzing its “starquakes,” which give scientists a glimpse beneath the star’s surface similarly to seismic waves on Earth.

Wailuku First Friday welcomes the holiday season with its monthly street festival on Friday, Dec. 6, 2025, from 6 to 9 p.m. This free, family-friendly event will transform historic Wailuku Town into a festive celebration of music, culture, food, art and community.

“To host such a distinguished event is a great honor for our people," said Chadd Paishon, a spokesperson for the 2028 conference. "It allows us to showcase our moana and share our aloha."

John Pele, executive director of the Maui Hotel and Lodging Association, will present at a meeting of the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset on Tuesday, Dec. 2.

The Military Child and Youth Program Abuse and Neglect Notification Act would codify a Department of Defense policy that was established after it became known that the Department had no requirement to notify parents in such cases.  

The operator of Maui’s oldest wind farm has completed a final environmental impact statement as part of its bid to keep its 20 turbines spinning above Māʻalaea for another two decades. Kaheawa Wind Power LLC is seeking a new 25-year lease from the state Board of Land and Natural Resources to continue generating 30 megawatts […]

From Dec. 2–6, 2025, more than 1,000 fourth graders and teachers will join 11 voyaging and sailing canoes from throughout Hawaiʻi along with education and community organizations for an immersive week of voyaging-based and ʻāina-based learning.

Free training classes for this spring are now available for sign up through the University of Hawaiʻi Community Colleges' Good Jobs Hawaiʻi initiative.

To cap the night, Zedekaiah Campbell scored his 22nd touchdown of the season on a 16-yard run that put him over the 1,000-yard mark for rushing on the season and broke the school record that he set last year.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation notifies road users that work will begin on the traffic signal project at the Kula Highway and Ōmaʻopio Road intersection on Monday, Dec. 1.

US Sen. Brian Schatz, a Hawai‘i Democrat, said the Aloha State is among the first states in the nation to get proposal approved through the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program.

The Hawai‘i Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity’s Plant Industry Division is now accepting applications for the 2026 Compost Reimbursement Program, offering financial support to farmers and agricultural producers statewide.

It's the largest public pre-kindergarten expansion on Hawaiʻi Island’s eastside under Hawaiʻi Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke's Ready Keiki initiative.

State water regulators have clarified data regarding groundwater pumping in Central Maui, acknowledging that while current withdrawals exceed official sustainable yield limits, those limits are conservative estimates that are now under re-evaluation. The clarification comes following an Oct. 28 staff briefing before the state Commission on Water Resource Management. The main focus of the briefing […]

Aloha United Way President and CEO Michelle Bartell joined senior leaders from the United Way network at Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square for the 4 p.m. bell ringing on Tuesday.

The coalition highlights that a more comprehensive solution is necessary because merchants continue to use Shopify’s services to sell illegal e-cigarettes.

Various County of Maui offices and facilities will be closed briefly in upcoming weeks, departments announced.

The County Department of Parks and Recreation’s Coach Soichi Sakamoto Pool at 700 Halia Nakoa St., Wailuku, will close from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, Dec. 4, for pool guard recruit testing. The facility will reopen at noon that day.

Looking to get rid of an old refrigerator or freezer? Hawai‘i residents now have a way to recycle it and help feed families in need at the same time.

US Sen. Mazie K. Hirono joined the Senate Democratic Caucus in introducing the "Restoring Food Security for American Families and Farmers Act of 2025." The legislation would repeal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.