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Although it is already welcoming customers, the new McDonald’s Restaurant at Kehalani Village Center in Wailuku on Maui will hold a grand opening celebration next month, company officials told Maui Now.

Light to moderate east to southeast winds will continue through most of the week. Through Tuesday, shower activity will diminish overall, occurring mainly…

Playing tough matches in their league every week, helped the Kalani High School boys soccer team survive a physical quarterfinal match on Neighbor Island soil Saturday.

The impetus for a package of bills introduced by the joint Senate and House task force on housing and homelessness is the fact that in the Aloha State, the difference between being homeless and having a home can be a razor-thin line. Hawai‘i has a chronic housing shortage and a high cost of housing.

The Committee on the Status of Women is now accepting nominations for its “Women of Excellence” awards program. In conjunction with this year’s national theme observing Women’s History Month, the program will celebrate “Weaving the Stories of Women’s Lives.”

The Women Helping Women organization on Maui will host its 18th annual elegant tea fundraiser on Sunday, March 8, from 5 to 8:30 p.m. at the King Kamehameha Golf Club in Waikapū.

There is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi following a 6.2 (preliminary magnitude 6.6) earthquake off the coast of Jalisco, Mexico, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.

Several environmental groups across the state released a joint statement in opposition to the nomination of Carleton Ching as director of the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Remnant moisture from the old front will be drawn back northwest across the state Sunday through Monday as another front stalls several hundred miles…

The Mayor’s Office of Economic Development and Maui Chamber of Commerce have announced the nominees for the upcoming 2015 Mayor’s Small Business Awards. A presentation ceremony will be held on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015, at 6 p.m. at the King Kamehameha Golf Club’s Waikapū Ballroom.

A total of two acres of brush burned in an afternoon fire located in an old Maui Land & Pineapple field above Honolua Bay on Maui.

DeCoite said, “This is a bittersweet day for me and my family. I know I have some big shoes to fill. I am grateful for having the opportunity to get to know Rep. Carroll. She was my representative, my friend, and she was my family.”

Southwesterly winds will shift westerly as a cold front moves across Maui County. The front is expected to reach Maui County Friday afternoon and evening…

Seventy-four-year-old Kīhei resident, Frank Corbett III was last seen leaving his home for a routine morning walk on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015.

Governor David Ige today announced his appointment of Lynn DeCoite to serve as Representative of State House District 13, which includes East Maui, Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, Kahoʻolawe and Molokini.

Deciding to stay in-house, Maui High School hired veteran teacher Keith Shirota on Wednesday to be the school’s next head football coach.

Former State Representative Diana “Mele” Carroll of Maui passed away at 3:50 a.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015, according to an announcement from the state House of Representatives.

Maui Police are asking the public’s help in locating Justin Costa, Jr., a 67-year-old Makawao man who was last seen on Feb. 1, 2015.

Light east to southeast winds will remain in place for the first half of the week. Conditions will be relatively dry and stable, with a land / sea breeze…

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of State Parks will close the Puʻuōlaʻi (Little Beach) area and a portion of Mākena Beach State Park in South Maui on Wednesday, Feb. 18, while DLNR staff and military ordnance experts conduct an investigation.