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Maunaloa is now quiet, so it’s a good opportunity to remember the 1950 Southwest Rift Zone eruption — the volcano’s most recent eruption to cause significant damage.

The Hui Noʻeau Visual Arts Center invites the public to watch a recorded video of the Ka Ulana ʻIe Maui Junior Cohort Hō‘ike & Panel Discussion, held June 28, 2025, at the center’s Makawao campus.

Maui Business Brainstormers will host its next Maui SmallBiz Think Tank on Thursday, July 24, from 11:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Pono Center in Wailuku Town.

The University of Hawaiʻi has received two privately funded grants totaling more than $1.5 million from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to tackle pressing health disparities across rural Hawaiʻi and the US-Affiliated Pacific Islands.

St. Anthony School has appointed longtime educator Mary Jean Bega as its new principal, bringing more than 30 years of classroom and leadership experience to the Wailuku campus.

Seabury Hall 2021 graduate Ella Connor, who became a beach volleyball All-American at Cal Poly, struggled with panic attacks and attempted to take her life twice but is now doing “amazing” with help from her four-legged companion.

Councilmember Yuki Lei Sugimura will hold her Talk Story with Yuki Lei outreach program this Saturday, July 19, at the Upcountry Farmers Market from 7 to 11 a.m.

Gov. Josh Green, M.D., Commander in Chief of the Hawai‘i National Guard, today signed an emergency proclamation that authorizes the Adjutant General, Brig. Gen. Stephen F. Logan, to activate the National Guard. Logan will use the authorization to commence Operation Hoʻopauahi (to extinguish fire) to keep an aircrew ready to provide aerial firefighting capabilities to augment county and state level first responder elements.

Wing and SUP foil races will open the 2025 Molokaʻi 2 Oʻahu Paddleboard World Championships, presented by the US Coast Guard, on Sunday, July 20, marking the first of two weekends of racing across the Kaiwi Channel. The prone and standup paddle board events will follow on Sunday, July 27.

Irish Mahoney’s Umani Farms Maui business plan was judged the top entry and winner of a $15,000 grant in the fourth Best Business Plan contest, staged by Maui Economic Opportunity’s Business Development Center.

A recent study by the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization has highlighted the success of the Good Jobs Hawaiʻi program, with participants from the UH Maui College campus seeing the largest wage gains of any campus statewide. The UHERO report posted July 7 by Rachel Inafuku and Tim Halliday found that graduates from the […]

Maui County said that of the 46 people living there, 21 went into shelter and two entered recovery programs. On Thursday, 10 truckloads of trash were removed and two truckloads of personal items were put into storage, where residents have 30 days to claim them.

A researcher-keiki collaboration aims to foster a deep connection to the land and community through storytelling. The Coastal Research Collaborative (CRC) at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa developed The Sand Dance, a storybook that was inspired by a play researchers co-created with students at Ka‘a‘awa Elementary. 

Kahului’s average gas price is holding steady near its lowest point of the year, despite a small recent increase. According to the latest AAA Hawaiʻi Weekend Gas Watch, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded in Kahului is now $4.51. That’s 3 cents more than last week, but it remains 22 cents lower […]

The Hawaiian Canoe Racing Association, in partnership with the Maui County Hawaiian Canoe Association, will host the 2025 HCRA State Championship Regatta on Saturday, Aug. 2, at Hanakaʻōʻō Beach Park in Lahaina.

A teen from Hāna, Maui was airlifted to the Maui Memorial Medical Center in critical, life-threatening condition after suffering injuries in a fall from an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) on Thursday.

Maui Kupono, LLC, in partnership with the County of Maui Department of Public Works and SSFM, will conduct road reconstruction on Mill Street—from Halewili Street to Lower Main Street—on Saturday and Sunday, July 19–20, and again on July 26–27.

A new partnership between Maui Gold Pineapple and Amazon Air is being called a “game-changer” for Hawaiʻi’s agricultural industry, providing a direct, fast and cost-effective shipping solution to the continental United States. Beginning with a test shipment early this month, the collaboration has already slashed freight costs by up to 60% and opened up new markets for the product.

Maui Ocean Center will host its annual Coral Spawning Night from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, July 26. Not only will guests have the chance to witness coral spawning, but they can also hear the latest updates on pioneering coral research currently underway off the coast of Maui.

The indictment alleges that Harris and Johnson conspired with each other and carried out a wire fraud scheme, wherein they are accused of submitting false claims to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, claiming to have suffered income, housing, and property losses as a result of two federal disasters, when, as Harris and Johnson both knew, they did not live in the disaster area or suffer any such losses.