Lahaina News

What Lahaina News does

Lahaina News is a local news publisher headquartered at 143 Dickenson St. in Lahaina, Hawaii, operating the lahainanews.com digital news website. Founded in 1938 and owned by Hawaii Publications, Inc., the company serves the Lahaina and West Maui community with original local reporting covering civic affairs, community events, local and Hawaii sports, opinion columns, entertainment, and lifestyle content such as real estate features. The product surface is a multi-section WordPress-based news site (theme: oni_weekly_2020_v1) that aggregates national and international news from the Associated Press wire alongside locally-produced content, with distribution extended through Facebook and Twitter channels.

The underlying publishing operation is a small staff of 11-50 employees producing recurring editorial coverage, including sustained post-August-2023 wildfire reporting on community recovery, the historic banyan tree restoration, and benefit events. The site organizes content into structured categories — Local News, Sports (Local/Hawaii/National), Opinion (Columns/Editorial/Letters to Editor), Entertainment, Hawaii News, National News, and International News — plus dedicated sections for Lahaina Scene and Real Estate features.

The business model is not publicly disclosed; no pricing models, subscription tiers, or advertising rate cards appear in the source data, and there are no disclosed investors, funding rounds, parent entities, or M&A activity. Revenue is presumably derived from a mix of digital advertising, legacy print subscriptions, and possibly local sponsorships, consistent with the traditional small-community newspaper model. Customer segmentation is horizontal, targeting local Lahaina and West Maui residents seeking hyper-local information. There are no disclosed API offerings, integrations, AI/ML capabilities, mobile applications, certifications, partnerships, or third-party alliances beyond the apparent AP wire relationship.

Name

Lahaina News

Legal name

Hawaii Publications, Inc.

Website

https://lahainanews.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1938

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Lahaina News is a local news publisher operating lahainanews.com, a digital news website delivering original local reporting and aggregated AP wire content to Lahaina and West Maui, Hawaii residents.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Local News Publishing

NAICS

Newspaper Publishers (513110)

SIC

Newspapers: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2711)

akta.pro primary industry

Investigative & Nonprofit News Organizations (MPAJADAF)

akta.pro secondary industry

News, Politics & Current Affairs Magazines (MPAJAEAO)

Keywords

• Local news publishing
• Community journalism
• Digital news media
• Sports news coverage
• Opinion editorial content

Headquarters

HQ city

Lahaina

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Lahaina News operates a digital local news publication serving the Lahaina and West Maui community in Hawaii. It produces and aggregates local news, sports, opinion, entertainment, and community content, and supplements original reporting with national and international news from wire services such as AP. The publication is delivered through its website (lahainanews.com) and social channels, targeting residents of the Lahaina and Maui region.

Product overview

Lahaina News is a local news website serving the Lahaina and Maui County community in Hawaii. The site operates as a unified news platform offering multiple content categories including Local News, Sports, Opinion, Entertainment, Hawaii News, National News, and International News. The website also features specialized sections such as Lahaina Scene and Real Estate Features. The platform aggregates wire content from international news services alongside locally-produced original reporting.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Lahaina News Website A digital local news website publishing local news, sports, opinion, entertainment, Hawaii news, national news, international news, and community content for residents of Lahaina and Maui County, Hawaii. It combines locally produced journalism with AP wire content and is delivered at no cost to readers.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Others

• Pacific Business News: Honolulu-based business journal covering Hawaii industries. Comparable as a regional news publisher in Hawaii, but with a B2B/business focus rather than community news.

Direct peers

• The Maui News: The Maui News is the largest daily newspaper serving Maui County and is the most directly comparable peer: same Hawaiian island market, same local-news-plus-wire model, overlapping geographic coverage of Lahaina and West Maui.

Regional players

• West Hawaii Today: Community newspaper covering Kailua-Kona and the Kona coast on the Big Island. Similar small-scale, locally focused daily model with wire-fed national news, but geographically separated.
• Hawaii Tribune-Herald: Daily newspaper serving the Big Island of Hawaii. Comparable as a regional/community newspaper serving a specific Hawaiian island, though on a different island than Lahaina News.
• The Garden Island: Kauai's primary community newspaper, owned by Oahu Publications. Operates the same small-team, local-news-plus-wire model as Lahaina News but in a different Hawaiian island market.

Emerging players

• Big Island Video News: Digital-only local news outlet covering Hawaii's Big Island. Similar digital-first approach and small staff, but video-led rather than text/print-led.
• Honolulu Civil Beat: A nonprofit digital-first investigative news outlet covering Hawaii. Comparable as a Hawaii-focused news publisher with strong civic journalism positioning, though focused on Honolulu/investigative beats rather than community news.

Broad incumbents

• Honolulu Star-Advertiser: Hawaii's largest daily newspaper, owned by Tribune Publishing. While statewide in scope, it covers Hawaii Island, Maui, and Honolulu news and competes for the same Hawaii-based readers and regional advertisers as Lahaina News.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/LahainaNews

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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