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Maui Gold Pineapple contributed $2,000 to support Lahainaluna High School’s Robotics Team, assisting promising STEM students with travel and opportunity costs. 

The non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for Maui Island was 6.2% in January 2024, compared to 5.8% the previous month, and 3% at the same time in 2023. The data was included in a new report released today from the Hawaiʻi Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

Early wildfire detection and wind sensors are on their way to Kīhei and Lahaina, public officials announced at a press conference in South Maui today.

At full capacity, the Behavioral Health Crisis Center can accommodate 16 individuals in initial crisis, with an additional nine stabilization beds. The facility will cost approximately $6.7 million per year to operate. 

A groundbreaking ceremony was held in Kāʻanapali for a secondary temporary school site for Sacred Hearts. Students have been attending classes at the Sacred Hearts Mission Church in Kapalua since their Lahaina campus next to Maria Lanakila Church was destroyed in the Aug. 8 wildfires.

Department of Human Services Director Cathy Betts will resign her state leadership role in May to become executive director of the Hawai‘i State Bar Association, the Governor’s Office announced.

Without significant flooding in February, drier and more stable weather conditions kept rainfall below average for the month in many areas of the state, including Maui County, the National Weather Service reported.

Lahaina small businesses and artisans that survived the August wildfires will benefit from “Kōkua for Maui,” an event hosted next month by Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa.

The bill would direct key federal agencies to use AI tools to improve weather forecasting, crack down on illegal deforestation and optimize electrical grids.

Planet Fitness presented a $13,110 check to the Hawaiʻi Community Foundation in support of its Maui Strong Fund to help Maui wildfire survivors.

The median price for a single-family home on Maui in February 2024 was $1,250,760, up 15.9% from the same time last year. The median price for a condo was $744,500, down 18.6% from the same time last year.

Mayor Richard Bissen and officials from the County’s Office of Recovery announced temporary modular home group housing projects being planned in coordination with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the State of Hawaiʻi and private developers to provide an estimated 4,000 interim housing units for wildfire survivors. The information was shared at the Disaster Recovery Community Update meeting held at the Lahaina Civic Center on Wednesday night.

Although there is no actual Spring season in Hawaiʻi, the days are getting longer and the temperatures are heating up, which means peak season for termites is approaching.

The Honolulu Festival Foundation announced today that H.P. Baldwin High School of Wailuku is the winner of the 28th Annual Honolulu Festival Maui Mikoshi design contest.

Trade winds are expected to remain locally strong and gusty through this weekend, accompanied by abundant windward showers, according to the National Weather Service.

Councilmember Yuki Lei Sugimura will hold her monthly Talk Story with Yuki Lei outreach program at the Upcountry Farmers Market this Saturday, March 9, from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m.

The average price of a regular unleaded gas in Kahului was $4.77 per gallon as of Thursday, 5 cents lower than last week, AAA Hawaiʻi reported. The current price is a cent lower than last month and 12 cents lower than a year ago.

Maui Academy of Performing Arts has received a $1,000,000 donation for its new black box theatre in Wailuku from philanthropist Susan Naylor Moulton. Currently under construction, the Naylor Family Theatre will open in spring 2025.

Moloka‘i bus driver Barbara Sentel, who has been shuttling Moloka‘i residents to shopping, doctor visits and other destinations for the last 34 years, was named Maui Economic Opportunity Driver of the Year for 2023.

The bill contains billions in assistance for Hawai‘i, including $49 million directed to 14 specific needs under Community Project Funding supported by US Rep. Ed Case.