Maui Now — U.S. Sen. Mazie K. Hirono, a member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, hosted several events as part of the 8th Annual Hawaiʻi on the Hill in Washington, D.C., this week.

University of Hawai‘i News, Spectrum News — The funds will help to cover direct education costs not met by other forms of financial aid, including tuition, fees and an allowance for books and supplies.

Civil Beat — Private preschools are worried that they will lose teachers and students as the state pushes new public preschools.

Honolulu Star-Advertiser — Developers of the 42-megawatt Kūpono Solar project held a ceremony Thursday recognizing the completion of the facility, which began commercial service June 7 and also has batteries capable of storing four hours’ worth of electricity produced by the roughly 120,000 solar panels on 131 acres of land leased from the Navy.

Spectrum News — Kūihelani Solar-plus-Storage, the state’s largest solar facility owned by AES Hawaiʻi, has begun to generate enough power for 27,000 homes supplying 15% of Maui’s energy needs. The project is estimated to offset the need to import two million barrels of oil to produce electricity on Maui.

Maui Now, Big Island Video News, Big Island Now, Kaua‘i Now — The data was collected in January as part of the Homeless Point in Time Count, a federally mandated census that seeks to count anyone who slept on the street, in a car, or in other areas not meant for human habitation on a given night.