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Koholā Brewery launched its first public event with a one-day Tap Takeover at Pailolo Bar & Grill, which marked National Beer Day on April 7 by supporting the new local business.

Maui County Budget and Finance Committee Chair Riki Hokama has proposed a 40% property tax increase for Commercialized Residential permitted properties—Maui’s bed-and-breakfast properties, while maintaining or reducing tax rates by 2% for other classifications.

The state and Hawai‘i County are standing down certain emergency response activities related to the dengue fever outbreak after 30 days of no new locally acquired cases.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center reports a 7.0M (preliminary magnitude 7.3) earthquake occurred near Vanuatu. Based on all available data, a destructive Pacific-wide tsunami is not expected and there is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi.

A Maui police Sergeant testified that Schmidt could be heard saying, “I couldn’t take it anymore and I stabbed…

Moderate trade winds will persist through Saturday. The stable trade wind flow will focus clouds and showers over windward slopes, while random pockets…

Known as the Oscars of big wave surfing, the XXL Awards acknowledge both men and women who risk their lives chasing monster waves all over the globe in search of the biggest and best rides.

Trade winds are expected for the rest of the week and into the weekend. Trades will be moderate to breezy but becoming slightly weaker as the weekend approaches. Clouds..

Demonstrators on three islands led chants of “e ola i ka wai, mauka to makai” in separate “Free the Streams” rallies focused on water rights and opposition to Alexander & Baldwin’s continued stream diversions.

A new National Park Service report shows that 1,216,772 visitors to Haleakalā National Park in 2015 spent over $76 million in communities near the park.

As witnesses recounted the events, sobbing could be heard from the gallery where a standing-room-only crowd was gathered. A woman who was shopping at the time of the incident, recounted that she witnessed the suspect “peeking around corners” and said she reported the strange and unsettling behavior to a store cashier.

The rally events are in response to legislative measure HB2501, the latest version of which would allow A&B to continue a previously authorized disposition of water rights for three years or until its pending application for water rights is resolved, whichever occurs sooner.

Moderate trade winds are expected to stay in place through the week. The trades are forecast to weaken slightly over the weekend, then pick back up early next week. Clouds and…

Coaches like to think they know everything. Sometimes it’s the athletes who know better. Either way, predicting the outcome of a high school track meet is hardly scientific and highly difficult. Welcome to the girls division of the Maui Interscholastic League.

An Oregon man was transported to the hospital in stable condition after being pulled unresponsive from the ocean at Ulua Beach in Wailea on Sunday morning, April 24, 2016.

Trade wind weather pattern is expected this week. Clouds and passing showers coming with the trade winds will favor windward and mauka areas. Rainfall amounts from these showers…

In all three of the incidents, the individuals were injured in the shorebreak and reported pain to either their neck or back, with one person hearing a loud crack in their back when they were hit by the wave.

Family members of two Maui stabbing victims have set up GoFundMe accounts seeking donations to assist in paying for medical expenses of their loved ones.

Maui Health Systems is scheduled to convene operations of the hospitals on July 1, 2016.

Firefighters and ocean safety personnel responded to two separate ocean rescue incidents on Friday afternoon, April 22, 2016, in which three individuals were rescued.