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A special weekly round-up featuring Christmas weekend events.

Officials at Haleakalā National Park on Maui are asking motorists to drive with extra caution following the death yesterday of an adult nēnē goose on park roads.

The US Coast Guard in Hawaii will enforce a temporary security zone in the waters of Kailua Bay in anticipation of the arrival of President Barack Obama.

“This is some good news, just in the nick of time for the holidays,” said Obama during a press briefing this morning, before his planned trip to Hawaii.

The facility was dedicated on December 28, 2010, but the Police Department only recently received a Certificate of Occupancy from the County of Maui. The new facility, county officials say, has the capacity to hold a maximum of 70 bodies in two separate walk-in refrigerators. The current location at the Maui Memorial Medical Center only has four holding drawers for the deceased.

Officials with the Maui Civil Defense agency say the incident occurred at around 2 a.m. at a single siren located off of Waiehu Beach Road.

DLNR: At times when the tide is high, people have to walk into the water instead of along the sand because of the overgrown shrubs.

The Schaefer International Gallery at MACC will be showcasing the fourth triennial exhibition of Schaefer Portrait Challenge 2012 from January 11 – March 11, 2012.

Hawaiian Airlines is expanding its nonstop service between Seoul and Honolulu to daily flights starting in July 16, 2012.

Chow becomes the 22nd head coach for UH, and the first Asian-American head coach of a major football program.

A lawsuit filed by Kamehameha Schools against a non-Native Hawaiian applicant, his mother and their former attorney has been resolved with a $1.4 million settlement in favor of the school.

The 18-year old men, were kayaking from Maui to Lanai when they sounded a distress beacon at around 6 p.m. on Tuesday.

The 28th Recruit Class of the County of Maui, Department of Fire and Public Safety graduated after 22 weeks of formal training.

American Safari Cruises plans to resume regularly scheduled visits to Molokai on January 21, 2011. The cruise company said “an amicable agreement has been reached” with local groups, as well as state and federal authorities.

Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva said that Hawaii is now “twice blessed” after the canonization of St. Damien, and now the canonization of Cope. Mother Marianne left a legacy of health care, education and spiritual nourishment in Kalaupapa on Molokai where she spent 30 years, serving Hansen’s disease patients.

The Hawaii State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations announced today that the Maui County unemployment rate was 7.7% for the month of November 2011.

At around 3 p.m., officials from the Water Department say the repair job is estimated to take approximately five hours.

This year 8,000 to 10,000 kids on Maui, Molokai and Lanai will benefit from the 2011 Toys For Tots collection drive

Surfers on Maui took advantage of prime surf conditions early Sunday morning as the National Weather Service extended a High Surf Advisory until 6 p.m. Sunday along Maui’s north shores.

At the second official monthly Makawao Third Friday Town Party on Friday, December 16, the town was already buzzing with activity and crowds all evening.