Legally blind Michael Stone is competing in the XTERRA World Championship in Maui, Hawaii this Sunday, October 24, facing greater challenges than the other participants. The 42-year-old from Boulder, Colorado will compete with the help of his friend and former XTERRA Pro Jared Berg, who yells out warnings and directions. A ten-time Ironman triathlete, Michael [...]

Randy Piltz, 2010 candidate for Maui Mayor, Transcript: Introduction: Aloha, I’m Randy Piltz, running for Mayor of Maui County.  I was born and raised here.  My Mom and Dad are from here.  Hattie–from the Kukahiko family down in the Kihei/Makena area; and Adolf from the family from the Ulupalakua and Kanaio area. I went to Kamehameha Schools; after [...]

Residential sales on Maui rose slightly to 53, with 14 homes sold each in the Central Maui and Kihei areas.  The median for a Maui home was up to $507,200, from $464,500 a month earlier.  The February figures were released by the Realtors Association of Maui. There were also six homes sold in Haiku, one [...]

Maui’s Great Whale Count has been rescheduled to Saturday, March 6, after last weekend’s tsunami warning forced the event host, Pacific Whale Foundation, to postpone the count. “While tsunamis generally don’t appear to have an effect on whales, the threat of a tsunami did have an impact on the humans who were planning to count [...]

By Wendy Osher An Oregon man died this afternoon after being brought to shore at Oneloa Beach (also known as Little Beach) in Makena. The victim, who had been swimming at the South Maui location, was identified as a 49-year-old man from Portland, Oregon.  Maui police, who responded to the scene at 12:17 p.m., say [...]

By Wendy Osher A portion of Front Street in Lahaina will be closed to traffic tonight as filming gets underway on the Romance/Thriller Hereafter.  The Warner Bros. film is being directed by Clint Eastwood, who owns a home in Makena on Maui. Filming begins today at a Kaanapali Hotel, them moves to Front Street tomorrow, [...]

Water customers in Central and South Maui are being asked to conserve water on Thursday and Friday this week, January 7 and 8, 2010, as crews complete work to install new electrical terminations at three Waihee wells. The three wells traditionally provide a total average of five million gallons of water per day to the [...]

Makena Beach & Golf Resort will welcome the 14th XTERRA World Championship on October 25th, 2009.  XTERRA comes to Makena, Maui, following an action-packed racing season that featured more than 100 events in 14 countries. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9li4Hsf4TUg[/youtube] (Xterra Maui File Footage from 2008 10.26.08.   Highlights and interviews with winners. Produced by Wendy Osher and Frank W. [...]

Benchmark Hospitality International officially today took over management of the Maui Prince from Prince Resorts Hawaii.  The new name of the property is Makena Beach & Golf Resort, a name selected to highlight the location, which stands beyond Wailea as the sole hotel in Makena. “We are so pleased to bring a fresh start to [...]

Congresswoman Mazie K. Hirono voted in support of a federal appropriations act that helped to secure $3,065,000 in funding for Hawaii. Maui’s ‘Iao Flood Control Project is one of six projects included in the request, which passed with a favorable 307-97 vote in the House.  The $250,000 ‘Iao allocation is expected to provide better protection [...]