Proper disposal, authorities say, helps reduce the risk of prescription drugs being used inappropriately, and reduces the risk of the drugs entering a human water supply and potentially harming aquatic life.

The Maui Police Department undergoes its fifth reaccreditation assessment this month.

The unidentified pedestrian had no local address and was crossing the highway in an unlit area, when he was struck by a vehicle headed South on the Honoapiilani Highway.

Maui Police are investigating the attempted burglary early this morning of an ATM machine located inside the Longs Drugs Store in Pukalani.

The Maui Police Department will collect unused or expired medication for safe and anonymous disposal.

The measure would create a five year pilot program for the dispensary in an unspecified county.

Members of the MPD will be distributing informational pamphlets today and tomorrow as apart of an effort to gain public backing on their legislative priorities for 2011.

A Haiku teen who has been missing since January was added to a national list that tracks missing and exploited children.

The Operation Speed campaign conducted by enforcement officers with the Maui Police Department, netted 683 citations over a five-day period.

By Wendy Osher Maui Police have arrested a Pukalani man on drug charges after searching a vehicle and his home last week.  Tracy Ibara, 46, was arrested on Tuesday, October 12 when police executed a search warrant on a Ford Ranger pickup truck he was operating. Authorities confiscated 287 grams of crystal methamphetamine or ice [...]