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The average price in Kahului is $4.49, which is two cents lower than last week and 25 cents lower than a year ago.

After a six-year hiatus, the Maui County Fair is making its long-awaited return. For the first time since 2019, the Fair will bring back the joy, traditions and community spirit that Maui has celebrated for nearly a century. The 98th Maui County Fair will take place Oct. 2–5, 2025, at the War Memorial Special Events Complex in Wailuku.

Lloyd Hisaka, a fixture in Hawaiʻi high school sports for more than half a century, was inducted Monday into the National High School Hall of Fame during a ceremony in Chicago, Ill.

County of Maui offices, facilities and services will be closed or modified on Friday, July 4, 2025, for the Fourth of July holiday.

A telescope operated by the University of Hawaiʻi has detected the third known interstellar (from outside our solar system) object to enter our solar system. Researchers say that it poses no danger to Earth.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation has officially designated a section of Honoapiʻilani Highway near Mile Post 14 a traffic emergency zone, citing serious erosion beneath the road that threatens to cut off access to West Maui.

Hawaiian Electric is warning businesses about a wave of scam attempts involving fake threats of shutting off service and fraudulent QR code payment requests.

Jazz Maui has announced two free Fourth of July concerts to kick off the Jazz Maui 2025 Music Fest, a month of concerts celebrating Hawaiian music and its world-wide impact.

A mural inspired by nearby Kauaʻula Valley with flowers and butterflies by local artist Noble Richardson greets children, their families, staff and other visitors at Maui Economic Opportunity’s Head Start Lahaina Center, the only preschool in town to survive the August 2023 wildfires.

The Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee reconvened its deliberations on Bill 9 at 3:43 p.m. Wednesday after a closed executive session that went on for more than six hours. Later, the panel recessed until 9 a.m. July 23.

In May, 15 goats were set up in within a fenced 1-acre area of Upcountry Maui and cleared the vegetation within eight days.

An approximately 150-foot-long stretch of the makai lane on Honoapi‘ilani Highway is being undermined just about half mile south of Olowalu Village. Immediate actions include moving the existing barricades along the makai shoulder further mauka. Other work will include stabilizing the shoreline and pushing lanes more mauka.

Property owner says a business hotel could serve the workers who come to the park, which was created in the late 1980s to help ease Maui’s economic reliance on tourism and big ag.

US Reps. Jill Tokuda of Hawaiʻi and Nick Begich of Alaska recently introduced two bills to help with Medicare underpayments to rural hospitals in Hawaiʻi and Alaska. Named the Save our Lone Emergency Services Act and the Ensuring Outpatient Quality for Rural States Act, these measures would ensure that Medicare payments better reflect the significantly […]

Kōkua Pool in Kahului will close on Thursday, July 3 to Sunday, July 6, 2025, for pool maintenance, the County of Maui Department of Parks and Recreation announced.

The Maui Food Bank has announced the promotion of Brandi Saragosa to chief operating officer, effective July 1.

Starting July 1, the Hawai‘i Department of Transportation will implement its Hawaiʻi Road Usage Charge program for light-duty passenger electric vehicles, replacing the current $50 EV registration surcharge.

Marine patrol units of the DLNR Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement are now active on O‘ahu, Hawai‘i Island, Maui and Kaua‘i.

Further investigation reveals that Boiani voluntarily left the island.  The Maui Police Department thanked the public for their assistance.

University of Iowa teammates Nanea Estrella and Kylie Welker taught local wrestlers some upper level technique at two wrestling clinics Thursday and Friday.