Maui News

From humble roots to sold-out headline shows, Grammy-nominated reggae group Rebelution returns to Maui with special guest Tribal Seeds on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. Gates open at 5 p.m., with the show kicking off at 6 p.m. at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s open-air A&B Amphitheater and Yokouchi Pavilion.

Maui’s 23rd Art of Aloha will take place on Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025, featuring ten artists from around the world.

Guam native Sean Perez has taken the reins as new finance director at Hawai‘i Community Lending.

Maui County will host two public aerial firework displays this year—one at the Grand Wailea Resort and another at the Four Seasons Resort Lānaʻi—according to a recent announcement from the Maui Fire Department. The department reminds residents that the import, transfer, sale, or use of aerial fireworks outside of permitted displays is illegal, extremely dangerous, and punishable as a Class C felony.

The Pacific Whale Foundation is offering a whale watch program for school groups of children in the 2nd through 5th grade.

Hawaiʻi has been selected by the US Department of Labor as one of 13 states, along with the District of Columbia, to participate in the National Expansion of Employment Opportunities Network initiative, according to an announcement from the Hawaiʻi State Council on Developmental Disabilities.

Ma Ka Hāna Ka ‘Ike has received $15,000 from the Servco Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Servco Pacific Inc.

This year was “Makahiki o nā Manu Nahele: Year of the Forest Birds,” officially proclaimed by Gov. Josh Green, M.D., in January. An estimated 47,000 people engaged in bird-related education events over the year with the goal of raising awareness about Hawaiian forest birds and their plight. But for the birds themselves, it was a complicated year filled with both troubling declines and new rays of hope.

Bo Pardau won the grand prize in the National Wildlife Federation photo contest with this image of a 2-inch-long cystisoma amphipod, in waters about 3 miles off the Kona Coastline in March 2024. The National Wildlife Federation photo contest judged images from 3,200 photographers.

Renate Event & Design and The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua have announced the return of the Maui Songwriters Festival in collaboration with music industry leader, Sony Music Publishing Nashville. Taking place Jan. 15 through Jan. 18, this 10th anniversary event will see headliners Lee Brice and Joel Smallbone, from for KING+COUNTRY, take the stage alongside some of the best songwriters from Nashville.

After the review process, the information is ready to be shared and can support decision-making, raise community awareness and increase knowledge and understanding of our volcanic environment.

Applications for the Hawaii State Federal Credit Union 2025 student scholarship applications are open through Feb. 28, according to an announcement.

The partnership agreement is designed to optimize outreach and engagement efforts and have program participants work in conjunction with the Coast Guard’s overall civilian and military officer recruitment efforts.  

Wailuku’s Empower Fitness Maui was recently awarded a small-business grant from the Human Rights Campaign, which supports LGBTQ+ business owners and strives to eliminate barriers to economic success and LGBTQ+ equality.

Hawai‘i Community Lending has new members of its board of directors. They are Kawena Beaupré, Jaclyn Kaina and Alapaki Nahale‘a. Returning board members are Billy Pieper (president) and Felicity “Kui” Meyer (treasurer).

In a pivotal milestone for the recovery and rebuilding of communities devastated by the 2023 Maui wildfires, Mayor Richard Bissen announced that the County of Maui will receive an estimated $1.6 billion in new Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funding for housing on Maui and an estimated $480 million more for economic development, […]

The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation is alerting motorists on Oʻahu of parking restrictions on Kamehameha Highway on O‘ahu’s North Shore in anticipation of the Eddie Aikau Big Wave Invitational on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2024.

The Polynesian Voyaging Society is preparing to celebrate the 50th birthday of Hōkūleʻa, Hawaiʻi’s legendary voyaging canoe, first launched on March 8, 1975.

The Lahaina grassroots initiative, “Healing Aloha | Breath Awareness Campaign Supporting Collective Trauma Through Self-Care,” has won the Humanitarian Action & Services Award for social impact at the 4th Annual Anthem Awards in New York City.

Maui County hotels had the lowest occupancy rates of Hawai‘i’s four counties at 58.9%, more than 10 percentage points less than the statewide hotel occupancy rate of 69.2%. It’s further evidence that Maui “tourism is really suffering,” as University of Hawai‘i economics professor Carl Bonham said recently.