Both of the MIL’s Divison-II teams celebrated the opening weekend of league games with lopsided victories.

This weekend, Mayor Charmaine Tavares opens the pre-season goodwill football game with a coin toss tomorrow night at Na Alii Stadium in Pukalani.  Kickoff is at 7 p.m. between Maui’s Na Alii of King Kekaulike High School and the Fighters of Kwansei Gakuin from Osaka, Japan.  The visiting high school football team has been coming [...]

After 10 years, PK Higa is returning a head coach of the King Kekaulike football team.

The Hawaii State legislature will honor Maui’s William Roback, Jr. today, Tuesday, March 09, 2010, for his recent selection as Alii Nui for the Royal Order of Kamehameha I.  Roback was elected by members of the royal society to serve a three-year term as head, or Alii Nui of the organization. The back-to-back floor presentations [...]

The Keanae region of East Maui is known for its white poi and the many taro patches that were once reserved for alii. By the 1900s Chinese immigrants had moved into the area and had utilized nearly half of the valley floor for growing rice patties. Today there’s a resurgence in interest in the taro [...]