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A groundbreaking and blessing ceremony will be held next week Thursday, Jan. 30, for the new Pu‘unēnē Shopping Center planned for development on 24 acres of land that will house the island’s first Target store.

The buses cost a total of $4.8 million and were acquired with 20% county funds, and 80% federal funding through the Federal Transit Administration’s competitive State of Good Repair grant.

The state is proposing a shoreline stabilization project to prevent further erosion from adversely affecting the structural integrity of Kahului Beach Road in Central Maui.

A structure fire overnight destroyed a Wailuku home, causing an estimated $60,000 in damage, fire officials said.

Maui police issued a press release this afternoon saying the ex-boyfriend of a missing Maui woman is not a person of interest at this time.

The four-story apartment building is located at 511 ʻImi Place and includes 28 two- and three-bedroom units.

Over the next couple of days, the north facing shores of Maui will be hounded by a massive northwest swell so big that the National Weather Service has issued a high-surf warning in effect through Friday morning.

A bill introduced at the state Legislature is aimed at developing a plan for the cultivation and export of marijuana in Hawaiʻi for sale in foreign jurisdictions where usage is legal.

There are a total of 5,246 solar installations in Maui County, that have a total operating capacity of 41 megawatts.

An estimated 300 people attended a candlelight vigil held last night for missing Maui woman, Moreira “Mo” Monsalve.

A Maui man suffered fatal injuries after he was struck by a box delivery truck just west of the Piʻikea Avenue/Līloa Drive roundabout intersection in South Maui this morning. Maui police have since identified the victim as Kenneth Elf, 47, of Kīhei.

Ing says that at a recent beach cleanup on Maui, volunteers picked up more than 14,000 cigarette butts from the beach in just two hours.

Wind is being blamed for a power outage that affected an estimated 1,300 customers in the Nāpili area of West Maui. The outage resulted when high winds blew branches into power lines.

The episodes, filmed in the South Maui resort area of Wailea, are scheduled to air on Wednesday, Jan. 29 and Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014, at 8 p.m. Hawaiʻi time on Oceanic Time Warner Cable channels 40, 560, and 1560.

The Sierra Club Maui Chapter will honor several Maui residents as “Local Environmental Heroes” at the group’s upcoming annual meeting on Feb. 1, 2014.

A 60-year-old Maui woman was airlifted to safety after slipping and falling on a trail near the big-wave “Jaws” look-out in the Peʻahi area on the North Shore.

The search for a Maui woman who has been missing since Sunday, Jan. 12, was focused today in the Polipoli area of Kula on Maui. Alexis Filicilda, the daughter of missing Moreira “Mo” Monsalve, was among those who joined in the search which included an estimated 115 people.

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The incident was reported at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 15, while the contractors were working on power lines for Maui Electric Company.

One of Monsalve’s friends said he was in the process of searching for her in Wailuku when he and others received a call that “something” was found at Papohaku that was possibly related to the case.