Maui News

The County of Maui Department of Parks & Recreation will soon be accepting applications for the Tri-Annual Permit Process for the Winter/Spring 2020 season for all leagues and recreational programs.

Some Waiehu Terrace residents helped their elderly neighbor escape from a burning house last night at 1146 Hakina Place.

A Kahului man was transported to the Maui Memorial Medical Center last night with critical, life-threatening injuries sustained in a motor vehicle collision on Dairy Road.

Maui Mayor Michael Victorino detailed anticipated impacts that he said would surface if the County ends up withdrawing from a U.S. Supreme Court case involving Lahaina’s injection wells.

Estuaries form wherever freshwater mixes with salt water, meaning that even on the arid Kona Coast of Hawai’i Island the coastal groundwater creates estuaries.

Maui County prosecutors have charged 18-year-old Carlo C. Tolentino, also known as Carlos Tolentino, with two counts of 2nd degree sex assault while the victim was “physically helpless” according to the indictment. 

Servco Pacific, a co-majority owner of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (Fender), continued its $1.5 million Centennial Service Campaign with a donation of musical instruments and services valued at nearly $500,000 to 55 public schools across Hawaiʻi.

Maui Health today announced the appointment of Lisa Paulson as new Director of Strategic Communications. She will oversee all communications and marketing for the health care system’s three hospitals and two clinics in Maui County.

The unemployment rate for the island of Maui was 2.3% in August, according to the Hawaiʻi Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. While the islandʻs unemployment rate for August decreased slightly from 2.4% the month before, the rate increased from 2.2% a year ago.

University of Hawaiʻi President David Lassner today issued a statement denouncing recent comments made by a faculty member about Kamehameha Schools.

Maui police have temporarily closed the Hāna Highway in the area of Mile 48 in the East Maui town of Hāna due to fallen electrical wires.

A siren in the Kahului area also was mistakenly activated during the exercise, according to the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency.

Four visitors from Seattle were rescued from strong currents in waters off of Puʻu Kekaʻa “Black Rock” in Kāʻanapali, Maui this morning.

“It’s been gut wrenching not knowing where our daughter is, or what may have happened to her.”

MMMC is the only hospital in the state of Hawaii to earn the highest recognition for heart failure care for 2019.

Leaders of the demonstration on Maunakea produced a new video on Tuesday, detailing allegations of what they claim is law enforcement misconduct.

The Department of Education will be hosting a series of public hearings to gather recommendations on how to improve compensation for Hawaiʻiʻs teachers. 

A group of researchers is hoping to save coral reef communities in the Indo-Pacific region with the “largest study ever conducted of its kind.”

Maui Fire officials put out several vehicle fires along with a brush fire overnight in Wailuku.

The complaint states that in 2012 one of the plaintiffs to file against the county was the West Maui Preservation Association (WMPA.) According to the complainant Paltin in 2017 was the Director of the WMPA and then in 2018 she was the President of the organization.