Featured

UPDATE: 7:45 a.m. 7/31/12: The Mokulele Highway is now completely OPEN in both directions. The road was closed in the Kahului-bound direction earlier today because of a traffic accident reported at around 5:30 a.m. fronting the Central Maui Baseyard.

Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa has been selected as part of a small delegation of mayors that is visiting Taiwan to promote economic and cultural exchange with the US.

Highway improvements are being made to accommodate the large trucks that will be transporting super loads of wind turbine components to the wind farm site in August.

Maui firefighters now have the Puukolii brush fire 100% contained. At around 12:15 p.m., fire officials say that although the fire was contained, it was not yet extinguished.

Maui’s Ilima Maiava evened his professional record to 2-2 Saturday by stopping Wesley Golden of Lakewood, Wash., in the second round via strikes.

Maui Memorial Medical Center’s Maui Heart & Vascular cardiology program is now partnering with Kula Hospital and Clinic to offer limited cardiology services beginning on August 6.

The blaze, reported at around 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 26, 2012, burned a 100-square-foot section of the structure and caused an estimated $3,000 in damage, authorities said.

A new bookstore, MEO board of directors, Fatburger in Pukalani, among changes to Maui’s business scene this month.

Proceeds will go to The Kraig Vickers Foundation, whose aim is to assist local military service members and their ‘ohana in times of hardship as well as to promote a more active and healthy lifestyle throughout the community.

The Community Work Day Program hosts a community recycling event in Hāna today through Saturday. The event runs from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day at the Hāna Landfill staging area.

This weekend’s exciting line-up of talented musicians, theatrical actors, standup comedians, and more.

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.