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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.

The Shops at Wailea have added three new merchants to its collection of more than 70 boutiques, shops, restaurants and galleries.

A bronze plaque was unveiled on Wednesday, officially designating Front Street in Lahaina as one of the “Great Streets in America.”

The University of Hawai‘i men’s basketball team returns to Maui for a second straight year, this time facing North Carolina A&T in a regular-season Division I game.

The installation is one of the largest to date on Maui and is expected to reduce 26 million pounds of carbon dioxide over the lifetime of the system, according to project officials.

Arakawa: “In total, we should be able to offer water service to several hundred people over the next year or two. We are very pleased that we are finding solutions to a decades-long problem.”

The drop-off tree recycling sites are free unless otherwise noted. The list also includes curbside pickup options for residents that want to save a trip to a recycling facility.

The County of Maui celebrated the holiday season with a tree lighting ceremony on the lawn of the County Building in Wailuku Wednesday night. “When you look at all of the people in our community, you just have to realize how blessed we are,” said Mayor Arakawa.

Today, Governor Neil Abercrombie visited the University of Hawai’i Maui College and toured the site of a proposed food innovation center.

The direction of traffic flow on Luakini Street in Lahaina will be changed on Monday to address safety issues involving passengers of the Maui Bus.

For Baldwin Junior, Jazmine Harmon, the realities of distractive diving came when a friend suffered fatal injuries in a head-on collision while texting and driving. Students from the Peer Education Programs and SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) at Maui and Baldwin High Schools joined forces with first responders in the Arrive Alive campaign.

The Mahinahina water treatment facility was temporarily shut down on Monday, December 12, 2011, due to high turbidity, or cloudiness of the water from the Honolua Ditch system. The shutdown has resulted in low and possibly no water tonight and tomorrow morning in Honokowai and parts of Napili in West Maui.