Long-debated Honuaʻula project set for full Council action on Friday morning

The Coast Guard rescued five adults after their vessel capsized outside Nāwiliwili Harbor in Līhuʻe, Kauaʻi, Tuesday.  

The National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for leeward areas of all islands due to gusty winds and low relative humidity. The warning remains in effect until 6 p.m. Thursday.

The 30-year-old Maui woman who went missing during a layover in Los Angeles last month, has been found safe, according to a statement released on behalf of her family today.

Gov. Josh Green, M.D., and the four county mayors announced the availability of a new online option to take the written learner’s permit test. As of Dec. 11, 2024, Hawaiʻi residents meeting the minimum age to test for a learner’s permit for a driver’s license can take a Home Driving Knowledge Test at https://knowtodrive.com/hawaii

Students at Kealakehe High School on Hawai‘i Island, in partnership with the San Diego Zoo Keauhou Bird Sanctuary, have completed the first-ever genome sequencing of the Palila, an endangered finch-billed Hawaiian honeycreeper endemic to Hawai‘i.

This weekend, Maui Bicycling League looks to host its Year-End Bike Ride in partnership with Maui Sunriders, a local bike shop that has reopened in Kapalua after losing its previous location in the Lahaina fires.

Over 200 students from Lahainaluna High School on Maui are enrolled in a new emergency readiness curriculum running through this Friday, Dec. 13, 2024, organized by Hawai‘i workforce development nonprofit ClimbHI with the support of the Maui Strong Fund at the Hawai‘i Community Foundation.

United States Attorney Clare E. Connors announced that Jose Elias Camacho, 34, of Maui, was sentenced Monday by US District Judge Susan Oki Mollway to 144 months in prison for trafficking in fake oxycodone pills containing fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death.

Residents are encouraged to attend the County of Maui’s Weekly Disaster Recovery Community Meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 11, in the Lahaina Intermediate School cafeteria.

This year’s biennial water resources bill developed in US Congress would provide another $30 million for Maui County to rebuild damaged infrastructure as well as authorize an assessment of Lahaina’s watershed, if it passes, according to US Rep. Ed Case.

The long-debated Honuaʻula master-planned community will come up for action on two bills this week Friday before a divided Maui County Council.

The County of Hawaiʻi’s Department of Environmental Management is working closely with the Hawaiʻi State Department of Health after the detection of H5 avian influenza (bird flu) in a sample of influent collected from the Hilo Wastewater Treatment Plant on Dec. 2.  This marks the first detection of bird flu on Hawaiʻi Island.

Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. announced the selection of Kainoa Casco as Vice President of Land Productivity and Asset Management. Casco is responsible for developing and executing strategies to create value by increasing the productivity of unimproved land in West Maui.

Lahaina Cannery and Lahaina Gateway, West Maui’s premier shopping destinations, are welcoming a group of new tenants for the holidays – businesses that have been adversely affected by the wildfires and have been shuttered for nearly a year and a half.

Central Pacific Bank has hired Larry Panzeri as the new branch manager of its Kīhei branch. 

Applications are now open for a state-funded program empowering Hawai‘i-based entrepreneurs to develop their food products from concept to business plan and pitch, providing tools to grow and scale their businesses.

All 5 and their boat were then transported by a response boat and its crew back to Nāwiliwili Harbor. No injuries were reported.

Birf flu was found in influent collected Dec. 2 at Hilo Wastewater Treatment Plant. This is the first time the bird flu was detected in Hawaiʻi County and the first detection of the avian influenza on a neighbor island.

Strong trades will focus showers over windward and mauka areas through tomorrow, particularly for the eastern end of the state. Trades then ease for the...

Surf along north and west facing shores of Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, and north facing shores of Maui has fallen below advisory levels&#44...

After the COVID-19 pandemic forced the festival's blazing brightness to dwindle to just a glimmer, limited to just courtyard lighting and window displays, more than half of the entire collection of trees, decorations and floor-to-ceiling displays made from recycled and reclaimed materials is once again on view for in person viewing.

The warning is in effect until 6 p.m. Thursday for South Kohala, Ka'u and the interior of the island as relative humidity levels fall and strong, gusty trade winds prevail, accompanied by drier air moving over the islands.

Trade winds continue to strengthen in response to a pressure gradient between a building high pressure ridge to the north and deeping low pressure system southeast of the islands.

H5 avian influenza was detected in influent collected Dec. 2 at Hilo Wastewater Treatment Plant. This is the first time the bird flu was detected on the Big Island and the first detection of H5 avian influenza on a neighbor island.

The Kona man pleaded no contest in the case in August.

Cindi Punihaole, the longtime director of the Kahalu‘u Bay Education Center, said the large number of users "were loving the bay to death."