#Hana Maui

The evening budget meetings scheduled for Wednesday in Kīhei and Thursday in Lahaina have been rescheduled to April 14 and 17, respectively, because of the island’s current flood watch, Council Vice-Chair Yuki Lei K. Sugimura announced.

The Queen’s Challenge competition, which honors Queen Emma and highlights the skills and pride of kalo (taro) farmers across Maui, will take place once again at the 2026 East Maui Taro Festival on April 18 at the Hāna Ballpark.

With Easter just around the corner, The Restaurant at Hāna-Maui Resort offers a thoughtfully curated, locally inspired (and designed for sharing) brunch on Sunday, April 5, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The Hawaiʻi Board of Land and Natural Resources approved recommendations from the Legacy Land Conservation Commission and the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife to award up to $7 million in state grants for five conservation projects across Maui and Molokaʻi.

Hawaiian Electric has restored power to approximately 1,200 additional customers in Waialua on the North Shore of Oʻahu whose electricity was proactively turned off Friday due to catastrophic flooding. On Maui, about 100 customers are without power. Two crews are working in Hāna to address storm-related pocket outages.

About 70 customers were restored today. Crews continue to focus on restoring about 220 remaining customers. Today, some of the critical repairs involved using a helicopter in East Maui where there is no truck access to set a 55-foot pole and deliver digging equipment as well as other restorations in pockets of Maui. 

Maui Economic Opportunity buses in Hāna will resume limited service Wednesday, March 18. Service will be limited to Hāna town due to hazardous road conditions from the strong kona storm.

East Maui residents may drop off appliances, automobile batteries, tires, propane tanks and scrap metal  during a Hāna metals collection event on March 5 and 6, 2026.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation is notifying the public of upcoming intermittent road closures at mile marker 19.5 on Hāna Highway (Route 360), for rock scaling work.

Work to remove loose rocks and vegetation from a slope face off Hāna Highway is scheduled for 8 a.m. to noon Jan. 20 and Jan. 21, leading to road closures just past the highway’s Milepost 25 and on Lower Nāhiku Road.

Common Ground Collective and Wailele Farm will host A Hoʻolawa Kine A Day this Saturday, Dec. 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Twin Falls.

Maui Economic Opportunity’s Hāna Branch office has relocated to 5060 Uakea Road, next to the Kamehameha Schools Preschool.

The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands achieved a significant milestone Saturday by awarding its first agricultural project leases for two subdivisions on the island of Maui. In total, 105 leases were granted: 55 leases for the Waiehu Mauka subdivision and 50 leases for the Honokōwai subdivision.

Mayor Richard Bissen is bringing Holomua Kākou back to East Maui next Wednesday and Thursday, as part of his continuing efforts to take county government to the rural areas of Maui County.

The Hāna Branch has been the only financial institution in this area of Maui since 1932. Now, as Bank of Hawaiʻi’s newest Branch of Tomorrow, it includes a 24/7 Easy Deposit ATM—the first in the area to accept deposits.

A teen from Hāna, Maui was airlifted to the Maui Memorial Medical Center in critical, life-threatening condition after suffering injuries in a fall from an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on Thursday.

The Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization invites the Hāna community and the public to attend the final in-person community meeting for the Hāna Community Pathway Study on Monday, June 23, 6:30 p.m. at Helene Hall located at Kapueokahi Bay in Hāna.

Kaumahina Wayside along the Hāna Highway will be closed from June 12 – June 22 for a tree removal project.

A 25-year-old Arizona man suffered injuries to his hip, lower back and arm after slipping and falling during a hike in the mountains of East Maui, Monday afternoon.