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A “Permitting Open House” will be held on July 6 by Mayor Alan Arakawa’s Permit Process Improvement Team taskforce and the public is encouraged to attend.

The Department of Health has suspended the permit for the popular Kanemitsu Bakery on Moloka‘i for allegedly producing baked goods manufactured at the facility under unsanitary conditions.

Beginning July 2, Sempra US Gas & Power will implement temporary lane closures along the Pi`ilani Highway in Upcountry Maui near Papaka Road to the Auwahi Wind farm project.

Starting November 8, Alaska Airlines will launch a new seasonal service between Bellingham, Washington and Maui.

The 16-year-old victim had lacerations to her lower left calf, and described the wound as a three-to-five-inch missing “flap” or avulsion.

Interim approval was been given to Larry Ellison by the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission allowing his company to assume ownership of Lanai’s three utilities.

A salvage operation to remove a 35-foot sailboat from the reef outside the Lahaina Small Boat Harbor was completed on Monday.

According to police reports, Naehu was traveling east on Kamehameha V Highway at around 4:57 p.m., on Saturday, June 23, 2012, when the accident occurred in an area east of Kaunakakai.

Members of the native Hawaiian research group, Hui Pono Ike Kanawai, began a 12-hour vigil at the site of the proposed Maui Lani Shopping Center in Central Maui on Sunday night.

Firefighters are actively fighting the blaze at a two-story residence at 2055 Pakahi Street, between Market and Church Street.

Sixty-seven birds have been found dead at Kanaha Pond Wildlife Sanctuary in Kahului.

Surfers and boaters are asked to stay clear of the removal operation that begins tomorrow. Parker Marine will secure heavy lines to the vessel and its mast, and by afternoon begin pulling them in with a winch to the nearby Kamehameha Iki beach park.

“We have a sacred duty to make sure that these areas where their bones are resting, are treated with the utmost sense of respect and reverence.”

Highlight events this weekend on Maui include a three-day Jazz and Blues Fest, The Grouch & Eligh hip-hop show at Casanova’s, and a free Kī Hō‘alu Guitar Festival at the MACC.

Many in Maui County are eager to learn more about the billionaire buying the Hawaiian Island of Lana’i. The transaction is still subject to final government approval.

The new law comes as crews work to eradicate the deer population in Hawai‘i County, before ranchers and farmers face the same problems now occurring on Maui.

Mayor Alan Arakawa was among the Maui officials who responded today to news of the recently confirmed sale of the island of Lana’i by releasing a statement this afternoon.

State officials have confirmed the sale of the island of Lana’i to Oracle Corporation co-founder and chief executive officer, Lawrence Ellison.

A fire that forced the temporary evacuation of residents in a Kula neighborhood on Tuesday is now 100% contained, but not yet extinguished.

Appointees under consideration include Richard W. Pollack to the State Supreme Court and Peter T. Cahill to the Second Circuit Court on Maui.