13th Annual Hawaiian Airlines Made in Maui County Festival welcomes more than 7,500 attendees

West Maui residents may dispose of recyclable, bulky items at a Go Green Recycling event from 8 a.m. to noon on Nov. 21, 2026, near the Pioneer Mill Smokestack on Lahainaluna Road (enter off Mill Street).

The County of Maui Department of Liquor Control will temporarily suspend production of various Liquor Control cards from Tuesday, Nov. 10, through Thursday, Nov. 12, 2026, due to system and equipment upgrades.

Nearly 5,000 drop-off locations will open across the country during National Collection Week, Nov. 16-23.

The 13th Annual Hawaiian Airlines Made in Maui County Festival wrapped up another successful year this weekend, welcoming just over 7,500 attendees to the Maui Arts & Cultural Center on Nov. 6 and 7, 2026. A

The Hawaiʻi Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has partnered with Findhelp, a social care technology company, to move from paper referrals onto a digital platform that helps staff connect people in DCR’s care with community services from pretrial through reentry.

County of Maui offices, facilities and services will be closed or modified on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2026, for Veterans Day.

“How tall is the fountain?”  This is the question that volcano watchers keep coming back to once the lava fountains start at Kīlauea. And there have been plenty of opportunities to ask this, as we’ve now had 56 lava fountains over the past two years at the summit of Kīlauea.

Mayor Richard Bissen will bring Holomua Kākou back to East Maui on Thursday, Nov. 12, and Friday, Nov.13, 2026. The previously scheduled event was postponed due to severe weather forecasts.

All Post Office locations, including those on Maui, will be closed Wednesday for Veterans Day, the US Postal Service announced. Regular mail delivery and retail services will resume Nov. 12, according to the agency. While retail counters are closed, Maui residents can still handle some postal business online, USPS said. At usps.com, customers can order stamps […]

Maui fire crews are responding to a brush fire reported at 5:51 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026 near Liloa Hema Drive and Alaku Place in Kīhei. Emergency officials report that smoke may impact this area. “Stay alert, monitor official updates and be prepared to evacuate if conditions worsen,” authorities advise in a Genasys Protect notice.

The National Marine Fisheries Service is scheduled to publish proposed rules Monday that would allow industrial longline and purse seine fishing in about 408,000 square miles of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. The proposal would open a 30-day public comment period, according to the Pacific Islands Heritage Coalition. The proposal covers waters 50 […]

Families in Hawaiʻi can face waits of two to three years for an autism evaluation. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is offering specialized training to help expand the number of local clinicians equipped to conduct these assessments.