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Jedidah Duarosan is charged with operating the scheme and allegedly collecting approximately $882,000 from six Maui families.

Maui will receive $800,000 in federal funds to build new bus shelters and install solar powered lighting, bike racks, and recycle containers.

Water customers on Kamehameha Avenue are advised of a planned water shut off on Wednesday, July 25, 2012, as crews work to replace a valve.

Walk-in Absentee voting for the upcoming Primary Election will begin on Monday, July 30, and continue through Thursday, August 9, 2012.

Last week, Hui No Ke Ola Pono, a native Hawaiian health care center, installed new officers to its board of directors at the J. Walter Cameron Center in Wailuku.

The recognition, issued by the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Hawai’i, comes following the smoking ban implemented at the hospital on May 1, 2012.

The Hui Aloha Playground at Keopuolani Park in central Maui is closed this week due to unsafe conditions.

The exercise involved the US Navy Seahawk helicopter transport of four mock patients from ‘Oahu to Maui. Upon landing at the MMMC helipad, the “patients” were taken to the MMMC Emergency Department where doctors and staff were standing by to treat them for their simulated injuries.

The largest Maui appropriation was $6 million for the design of a proposed consolidated rental car facility at Kahului Airport. The project was one of four at Kahului Airport included on the list.

The $1 million grant will help Maui keep pace with the growing demand for transit services, which now exceeds 2.7 million passenger boardings per year.

Officials from the county Department of Environmental Management say crews unexpectedly ran into large boulders under the highway, slowing construction speed and traffic in the area.

Uakea Road in East Maui is now open following a severe storm in March that washed out the rural road on the approach to Hana Town.

The deposit fee for beverage containers in Hawai’i will increase by a half-cent to keep the successful HI-5 recycling program in operation for two more years.

Hawaiian Airlines today implemented a new fare structure for neighbor island travel that lowers ticket prices across all of its fare classes from 4% to 25%.

The list is dated June 30, 2012, and currently has a total of 1,474 requests for building permit applications, subdivisions, and water service requests received as of June 27, 2012.

A job fair and expo is planned next month to help former Hawaii residents and mainland college students interested in returning to the islands.

Kihei resident Richard Oliverio is on five years probation for a sports bookmaking operation that investigators said took in 318 wagers totaling more than $44,290 in a three-week period.

Hawaiian Airlines announced Sunday it will offer nonstop flights between Honolulu and Auckland, New Zealand, three times a week beginning March 13.

An 18-year-old male visitor reportedly died from a 50-foot fall off the bridge near Makapipi Falls just past mile-post 25 on Hana Highway at approximately 1:51 p.m.