The Keawala’i Congregational Church near Makena Bay on the island of Maui was founded in 1832. Members living near the beach gathered coral rocks and those on the forest side supplied lumber for a ...

Above, a worker scans land in the Waikoloa Maneuver Area on the Big Island for unexploded ordnance from World War II. Shirley Gambill-De Rego, a mortgage broker and a Puukapu beneficiary, has helped ...

The GI Bill has a mythic significance in American history. Generations of veterans got educations and easy home loans; you know, the kinds of things that pull families up into the middle class. But ...

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The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced on Wednesday that it will lower the VA Native American Direct Loan (NADL) program interest rate from 6% to 2.5% in an effort to make housing ...

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is introducing a new program this month that will offer loans to Native Hawaiian farmers who are starting a farm or expanding an existing one. The Mahi ‘Ai Agricultural ...

Agricultural businesses run by tribal nations and some farmers and ranchers working on tribal land say they have a hard time accessing federal loans. This week, the federal Farm Credit Administration ...

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