Kelsey Kukaua

2 months ago | alohastatedaily.com | Kelsey Kukaua

Easter Sunday is a high attendance day for most churches across the country. While this is not an exhaustive list of Easter services statewide, hereʻs how three local organizations plan to celebrate "the greatest story every told" this year. This Sunday, April 20, is when the "Chreasters" go to church. The slang term combining the words Christmas and Easter refers to those who attend church twice a year. Across the country and religions, Easter Sunday is known as a high attendance day for churches.

2 months ago | alohastatedaily.com | Kelsey Kukaua

Keolamaikalani "Keola" Dean will make three years as the CEO of King Lunalilo Trust and Home on April 17. Prior to assuming this role, he worked supporting Native Americans’ health needs and tribal policy for the Washington state Medicaid agency, and would visit Oʻahu to take care of his mother with dementia. “When I came home to Honolulu in late 2021, I was at the beach one day and had this overwhelming sense of urgency – it was my aumakua telling me that I needed to come home.

2 months ago | alohastatedaily.com | Kelsey Kukaua

Over the last few months, founder and chief innovation officer of RevoluSun Eric Carlson said he had heard 15 times from a variety of sources that his local solar company was going out of business. “We’re not going out of business. That is one of their strategies is to discredit Hawaiʻi companies,” he said of Mainland solar salespeople pretending to work for the state government and/or Hawaiian Electric. He added that this “solar dupe” is a national trend occurring wherever Sunrun Inc.

2 months ago | alohastatedaily.com | Kelsey Kukaua

Interior improvements are underway this year for housing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i “to provide high quality housing for our service men and women.” According to Brent Arakaki, director of development for Hunt Military Communities, which manages ‘Ohana Military Communitiesʻ more than 7,000 residential units on Oʻahu, the company “retains a recapitalization and long-term sustainment plan, which is updated annually, to replace aging assets in the housing...

Dec 6, 2024 | bizjournals.com | Kelsey Kukaua

The Makani Loa was built in Portland, Oregon, and features artwork inspired by its name, which means "grand wind."Earlier this year, Aloha Marine Lines, part of the Lynden family of companies, added its first new barge since 2020 for its shipping service between the Pacific Northwest and Honolulu.