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Kaiser Permanente and its many community partners are committed to Maui's continued path to recovery.| Hawaii Business Magazine
A story doesn't come alive through words alone. It's the photographers, designers and art directors who give our reporting its visual heartbeat. And no one does that better than our creative director, Jeff Sanner.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Honolulu former deputy chief of police John McCarthy describes the stresses, and rewards, of police work in Hawai`i. Some days, "it's zero to 60" with a single call.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Conditions may finally be ripe for a rebound in diversified agriculture| Hawaii Business Magazine
NFL players ranked Washington Commanders head coach one of the highest head coaches in the league| Hawaii Business Magazine
Effective Third-Party Claim Administrative Services combine local and technical expertise with customized programs tailored for individual organizations.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Many places in the U.S. manufacture chocolate, but only Hawai‘i cultivates its main ingredient, cacao, on a commercial level. Efforts to establish Hawai‘i as a globally recognized gourmet chocolate producer are gaining momentum.| Hawaii Business Magazine
A closer look at some of the Top 250 companies making steady progress and setting benchmarks in their fields.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Daily visitor or long-term parker? Find up-to-date information on locations, daily or monthly prices, and more in our refreshed online parking guide.| Hawaii Business Magazine
As we commemorate the two-year marker since the devastating Maui wildfires of August 2023, our thoughts are with those we lost, and every survivor impacted by this tragedy. But we have also been so inspired and moved by the overwhelming generosity that poured in to support Maui from across the Islands, and around the world. Through your aloha, the Maui...| Hawaii Business Magazine
Kaiser Permanente and its many community partners are committed to Maui's continued path to recovery.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Agriculture| Hawaii Business Magazine
Inside his extraordinary rise from headstrong teen with a one-way ticket to Maui to founder, owner and CEO of Hawai‘i Foodservice Alliance.| Hawaii Business Magazine
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The governor’s power to fill vacant seats in the state Legislature has been used at least 82 times. Some appointees then launched big political careers.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Industry Outlook| Hawaii Business Magazine
ALTRES shares how it’s helping Hawai‘i businesses tackle 2025’s workforce, tech, and security challenges. From upskilling teams to supporting HR strategy and cybersecurity awareness, the company is focused on long-term growth. Learn how ALTRES is adapting alongside its clients.| Hawaii Business Magazine
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An Old Family Recipe Remains a Classic at This Līhu‘e Restaurant| Hawaii Business Magazine
My Job Is Constructing Lightweight Outrigger Canoes in Hawai‘i| Hawaii Business Magazine
A Hawai‘i Veteran’s Struggle to Fight Deportation| Hawaii Business Magazine
The food scraps and leftovers you normally throw away can be turned into new soil or fertilizer and soil conditioner.| Hawaii Business Magazine
The valuation of agricultural lands is more than an academic exercise: It is an important factor governing land and power in Hawai‘i.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Rising insurance rates continue to squeeze condo owners on O‘ahu, but relief may be in sight| Hawaii Business Magazine
Maui Economic Opportunity assists all ages with food, rent, transportation, preschool, employment and more.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Nonprofits| Hawaii Business Magazine
2025 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Award winner: President Al Kakazu says his main job is to make the customers’ job easier.| Hawaii Business Magazine
A recently launched program offers inmates carpentry and drywall training to “break the cycle of reincarceration while meeting workforce needs.”| Hawaii Business Magazine
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Two years after the fire, its core historic and commercial center is still in ruins. But residents are rebuilding their businesses, homes and lives around the edges of town.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Hawai‘i Business Magazine identified the leading real estate companies and invited them to submit their Top Performers. This section profiles many of these Top Performers in real estate. Consider these agents and companies when preparing to make your next real estate transaction.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Youths facing life challenges learn to express themselves and heal through arts education, thanks to a Museum Without Walls grant.| Hawaii Business Magazine
2025 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Award winner: Mother-and-daughter team Kathy and Jodie Yamashiroya run the family business – Hawai‘i’s only union printing shop.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Nick Bradley’s stargazing events expose kids and adults to the “wonders of the universe.”| Hawaii Business Magazine
The Institute for Human Services’ transitional housing and support services aims to keep people out of prison permanently.| Hawaii Business Magazine
The senior VP of world championship events relies on meticulous planning and more than 5,000 volunteers to pull off the annual triathlon.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Meet eight attorneys who are redefining excellence early in their careers| Hawaii Business Magazine
While a recent 25% tariff on papayas from Mexico was eliminated, local papaya growers and processors are monitoring the situation closely.| Hawaii Business Magazine
While sometimes demonized, local leaders say the underlying values of diversity, equity and inclusion still play an important role in the Islands.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Six essays from U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono, Randy Soriano, Peter Tui Silva, Walter Kinoshita, Dean Hamer and Joe Wilson, and Camaron Miyamoto on countering attacks on LGBTQ+ rights.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Hawaii Business’ new editor in chief had an impressive career in the national business media. Now she’s back in Hawai‘i, in her dream job.| Hawaii Business Magazine
With her background in psychology and strong leadership skills, this law firm partner helps solve thorny construction and real-estate conflicts.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Fluent in environmental law and ‘Ōlelo Hawai‘i, this law firm partner works to bring development in balance with the environment.| Hawaii Business Magazine
SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Awards Hall of Fame: Raymond Noh took over the small family business in 1983 and turned it into a global food brand.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Profiles of 27 winners and finalists who are making a difference in startup paradise.| Hawaii Business Magazine
2024 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Award winner: Brothers Tim and Thai Lai started with two vans and now oversee a giant fleet, tire sales, a repair shop and more to come.| Hawaii Business Magazine
2024 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Award winner: From a two-person startup, founders Mike Yee and Gregory Perry built an environmental consulting firm with global reach.| Hawaii Business Magazine
The manager of a new 33,000-square-foot manufacturing and teaching facility aims to help entrepreneurs develop marketable food products.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Entrepreneurship| Hawaii Business Magazine
The nonprofit’s president and CEO leads unique educational initiatives, including a mobile preschool and assistance for homeless families.| Hawaii Business Magazine
The agency’s coordinator draws on a background in family law and her own childhood experiences to help kids and teens in distress.| Hawaii Business Magazine
After years on the mainland, these locals are coming home – and bringing their thriving careers with them.| Hawaii Business Magazine
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Parting Shot| Hawaii Business Magazine
Small Biz Editor's Choice Awards| Hawaii Business Magazine
2025 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Award Hall of Fame: Michael and Ursula Hirao make and sell mochi and other Japanese treats from their Iwilei facility.| Hawaii Business Magazine
2025 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Awards Hall of Fame: Lawrence Fujiwara is the third-generation owner of this historic landmark in ‘Ālewa Heights.| Hawaii Business Magazine
2025 SmallBiz Editor’s Choice Award winner: Co-founders Lawrence Boone and Seneca Klassen grow cacao trees on O‘ahu’s North Shore for their chocolate bars.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Agriculture| Hawaii Business Magazine
The nonprofit has so far received $2.8 million of its $6 million Phase 1 goal.| Hawaii Business Magazine
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Here’s how three Title I schools are making improvements, including expanded assessments, tutoring, and after-school and summer learning.| Hawaii Business Magazine
He’s Part of the “Pit Crew” for a Maunakea Telescope| Hawaii Business Magazine
Beyond dental plans, HDS is deeply committed to improving oral health throughout Hawai‘i, especially in underserved rural communities.| Hawaii Business Magazine
How one financial advisor has turned client gifts into community impact| Hawaii Business Magazine
Nonprofits| Hawaii Business Magazine
Local people lost $61.6 million in 2024 to fraud, from romance and cryptocurrency scams to fake concert tickets and gig work. Our writer was one of them.| Hawaii Business Magazine
“It’s very black and white. You build homes, you reduce the homeless population,” says HomeAid Hawai‘i’s executive director, Kimo Carvalho.| Hawaii Business Magazine
The Hawaii Children’s Discovery Center lets kids learn while playing.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Deputy Public Defender Merlinda Garma has hosted the TV show “Hawaii Skin Diver” since its debut in 2004.| Hawaii Business Magazine
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Small Biz Editor's Choice Awards| Hawaii Business Magazine
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WriterBeverlyBeverly Creamer has worked for almost four decades as a Honolulu newspaper and magazine journalist, covering everything from education and health, to government and lifestyles. She cooked with Aretha Franklin; mourned with Lorna Onizuka after the space shuttle explosion that killed her husband, Ellison; danced with Lawrence Welk; and interviewed Anwar Sadat’s widow, Gloria Steinem, Simon and Garfunkel, and many,...| Hawaii Business Magazine
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The Future of Hawai‘i’s Last Sugar Mill| Hawaii Business Magazine
It was a year of immense change, with grand visions for the future. Some dreams came to pass, and others remain just dreams.| Hawaii Business Magazine
A look at the policy decisions, external crises and social changes that gave Hawai‘i the most expensive housing in the nation.| Hawaii Business Magazine
World-renowned appraiser Gerald Kwock transforms a lifetime of collecting into unending opportunities for local students.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Once a destination for the rich and adventurous, the advent of commercial jets in the 1950s made the Islands affordable to the masses.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Ethel and Joe Murphy came to Hawai‘i in 1952 so Joe could sell vacuum cleaners. By 1955, they founded the first and oldest regional business magazine in the country.| Hawaii Business Magazine
From Chinn Ho to David Murdock, here are the men and occasional women selected as the year’s most influential leaders.| Hawaii Business Magazine
After 38 years in the local news media, Hawaii Business’ editor and executive publisher is getting ready to kick back and enjoy semi-retirement.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Firearm registrations are up 280.5% since 2000, with gun deaths rising sharply as well. Should Hawai‘i be doing more to control firearms?| Hawaii Business Magazine
15 years of shaping a sustainable Hawai‘i, together.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Transportation| Hawaii Business Magazine
Hawai‘i History| Hawaii Business Magazine
Housing| Hawaii Business Magazine
The first cohort of 16 leaders from small and medium companies learned to scale up their contracting businesses.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Art + Flea: Where Creativity Meets Community| Hawaii Business Magazine
The Building Industry Association of Hawaii has revived its education program, a gateway to well-paid construction jobs.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Building up can be a lot cheaper than constructing single-family homes in new developments.| Hawaii Business Magazine
The U.S. ranks lower than expected on the Elite Quality Index, pointing to institutions that concentrate power and wealth.| Hawaii Business Magazine
Some of the state’s biggest companies are working to turn a cover crop into renewable fuel for utilities, vehicles and passenger planes.| Hawaii Business Magazine
