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Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company held a test run of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV, that it plans to use to improve irrigation practices at the company’s sugar cane fields.

A bicyclist was rescued from Haleakalā Crater Road this morning after going off the road and down an embankment, landing about 30 feet below, officials said.

The 20-year-old Wailuku man driving the Civic and his 19-year-old female passenger from Pukalani were transported to hospital with life-threatening injuries.

A portion of South Kīhei Road will be closed from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 22, as county crews conduct stabilization work on the Kūlanihākoʻi Bridge.

Maunaloa Elementary school earned high marks in the state’s new report card. The school was the only one in Maui County to earn high performance classification with 343 points out of a total of 400, under the state’s new Strive HI Performance System.

Hospital officials say Jana Lutteropp, the 20-year-old German woman who had her arm severed in a shark attack incident at Maui’s Palauea Beach last week, is on life support.

The incident was reported at 2:51 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 19, 2013, on the mauka side of the Honoapiʻilani Highway across from the Waikapū On 30 Restaurant, said Maui Fire Services Chief Lee Mainaga.

The public is invited to take complimentary tours of both canoes from 2 to 4 p.m. before the canoes depart for Moloka‘i.

Maui High School girls won the Ho’oikaika Division of the 2013 Maui Volleyball Invitational tournament Saturday, beating Hana in a third-round championship game 26-16, 14-25, 15-12 at Ka’ulaheanuiokamoku Gym.

A visiting nurse and paramedic came to the aid of a toddler found floating in a hotel pool in West Maui on Saturday afternoon, officials said.

Rescue crews responded to two separate paddle boarding incidents at Pāpalaua Wayside Park in West Maui on Friday after receiving distress reports from the location.

The collision occurred when a blue 2007 Honda Civic traveling north on the highway, crossed left of center and collided into a blue 2005 Toyota Corolla traveling in the opposite direction.

US Senator Brian Schatz today, announced the distribution of $800,000 in federal funds to the County of Maui Department of Transportation for its ADA compliant Bus Stop Shelter and Signage Program.

A 28-year-old Lahaina woman was listed in “extremely critical” condition after being struck by a motorcycle while trying to cross the Honoapiʻilani Highway on foot in West Maui on Thursday morning, Aug. 15, 2013, police said.

A 20-year-old woman from Germany remains hospitalized in critical condition, after her right arm was severed in a shark attack at Palauea Beach, also known as White Rock in Mākena, on Wednesday afternoon.

John Lee Balberdi, 39, was arrested and prosecuted after more than 550 grams of pure methamphetamine was seized from a Kahului home of a co-conspirator in February of 2009, said US Attorney Florence Nakakuni.

“I felt very lucky cause I came right through that same path that the board came through… so I am very thankful today that it was the board and not me,” said Flannery, a resident of San Francisco.

Maui police will increase DUI enforcement efforts during a national “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign which runs from Aug. 16 to Sept. 2.

This is the first time outer agencies were included in the training program since the program launched in January, said Dr. Dara Rampersad, forensic coordinator of the Maui Community Health Center, who served as a trainer for the program.

The company issued a warning to customers today, saying dozens of small business customers across the state have reported receiving calls saying their electric bill is delinquent and that they’re subject to same-day disconnection.