Maui News

Organizers of the 11th Annual Maui 5K surpassed their $25K goal, and raised $39, 251 for participating Maui Nui schools.

The vaccination clinic team at Maui Health was honored Friday for their outstanding efforts in helping to vaccinate Maui residents with more than 83,000 doses since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A vehicle fire involving a semi truck, slowed traffic during the morning commute in West Maui, Friday.

A 54-year-old woman from Haʻikū, Maui, suffered fatal injuries in a fall from a steep cliff in East Maui, Friday afternoon.

Maui Mayor Michael Victorino is seeking authority from the County Council to convey 16 lots in the Fairways at Maui Lani to the Maui Health Foundation for workforce housing needed by healthcare professionals. 

Originally planned as a virtual video presentation, the recent dramatic decline in COVID-19 cases has enabled a small audience of dignitaries to gather at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center for the mayor’s hybrid presentation that will combine live remarks and videotape.

Maui Hotel & Lodging Association partners with Maui Food Bank in a Toiletry Drive taking place through March 25. 

$350,000 in congressionally directed spending will to to the Molokaʻi Land Trust to support construction of predator-proof fencing to protect threatened and endangered species within the Mokio Preserve.

Hawaiian diacritical markings to be added to signs at Pi’ilani Highway and Kūlanihāko’i Street intersection in South Maui as part of the Piʻilani Highway Intersection Improvements Project.

Maui fire crews and first responders are on the scene of a brush fire along the Haleakalā Highway. Motorists reported seeing smoke and flames in the area off of the shoulder of the highway in makai bound direction.

Lieutenant Governor Josh Green spent about two hours at Maui Economic Opportunity’s Wailuku and Puʻunēnē offices on Wednesday, March 9, 2022, visiting kūpuna and discussing the broad work of the nonprofit agency to help people in need in Maui County.

Maui County’s unemployment rate for January 2022 was 5%, down from 5.3% last month and 10.7% a year ago, according to data not seasonally adjusted from the Hawai‘i State Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism.

The Kahului Post Office is hosting its first Passport Fair of the year on Saturday, March 26, for Maui residents and out-of-state visitors who want to apply for new US passports.

For the new two-year term, Maui County Farm Bureau retained some current board members and elected some new ones, including Bobbie Patnode and Jayson Watts.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands begins an assessment of active and inactive cesspools throughout the state, starting with homestead communities on Molokaʻi.

The US Senate passed the FY22 appropriations bill which includes $263 million in congressionally directed spending for Hawaiʻi.

State owners of a major Lahaina development called Villages of Leialiʻi recently offered to transfer for free about 400 acres of the project’s land to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. Although transfer approval and future plans for the land will have to be ironed out by DHHL, the proposal was praised Thursday during a Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corp. meeting.

Alaula Builders shared they will be presenting two more 100% workforce housing neighborhoods before the Maui County Council in April to address the pressing need for local housing on the island.

The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a $1.5 trillion measure to fund the federal government for the current FY2022. If approved by the US Senate as expected, the bill will go to President Joe Biden for his expected signature into law. 

Equipment, including firearms and ammunition and other state and personal property were taken. This includes a Polaris Utility Terrain Vehicle, which was recovered in the Tantalus area.