Esmeralda visits Maui at beginning of Chilean naval training, diplomatic mission

It isn’t every day that a four-masted sailing ship anchors off of Lahaina, but there she was — the 360-foot-long Esmeralda, a Chilean flag deployed for diplomacy and life-at-sea training for Chilean naval academy graduates.

The Maui Food Bank today announced that the National Association of Letter Carriers’ 33rd annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive collected over 26,000 pounds of food from Maui residents on Saturday, May 10. This community-wide effort will help provide meals to local families facing food insecurity.

Wildfire debris transfer, HECO updates, and financial counseling from Hale Mahaolu are among topics to be discussed.

The red placard was issued for a cockroach infestation during a routine follow-up inspection conducted on May 14, 2025.

The Maui Chamber of Commerce is reminding the community that product vendor applications for the 12th Annual 2025 Hawaiian Airlines Made in Maui County Festival are being accepted until the deadline of June 2.

Forecasters with NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center and Climate Prediction Center today said the outlook calls for 1 to 4 tropical cyclones across the central Pacific this season.

The County of Maui Department of Public Works is starting work Friday, May 16, 2025, on the installation of four speed tables on Pūlehu Road in the vicinity of the Central Maui Landfill. 

Hawaiʻi Children’s Action Network Speaks! (HCAN Speaks!), a nonprofit advocacy organization supporting Hawaiʻi families, is celebrating the passage of several bills that are aimed at giving working families relief.

Hawaiʻi-based roaster Lion Coffee has launched a new 100% Maui Coffee made exclusively with beans from Mahi Pono Farms in Kahului.

Hawaiian Electric donated to Maui Economic Opportunity a total of 150 toiletry and hygiene items, including shampoo, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste and laundry soap, to be given to Head Start preschool families and Community Services clients in need.

The annual celebration—believed to be the longest-running Filipino fiesta in the United States—was first held in 1970.

A new performance blending hula, contemporary dance and storytelling is set to premiere in Wailuku this June, created by acclaimed Native Hawaiian choreographer Christopher Kaui Morgan and inspired by queer Hawaiian moʻolelo.