Aliksa was located and found to be in good health.  The Maui Police Department thanked the public for their assistance.

The Dirty Cello band features classical cellist gone rogue, Rebecca Roudman on cello and vocals, who is backed up by a top-notch rhythm section.

Maui County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate continued to hover around 3% during the month of May, according to data released by the Hawai‘i State Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism on Monday.

Maui Youth & Family Services (MYFS), in partnership with Maui United Way and Sentry’s Mālama Nā Keiki Initiative, is expanding critical mental health services for keiki impacted by the Lahaina wildfires. 

Effective November 2024, Sarah McLane Bryan has assumed the role of President of the Board of Directors, succeeding Bryan Berkowitz, who will continue to serve as Vice President. Sarah previously served as Vice President and, along with Bryan, was a founding board member of Nā Koa Manu Conservation, Inc. in 2015.

Born and raised in Honolulu, John Henry Felix dedicated his life to advancing the common good. His roles spanned Chair Emeritus of the Hawai‘i Red Cross, founder of multiple Red Cross Societies in the Pacific, field delegate in international relief efforts across Southeast Asia and Africa, Chair of the American Red Cross International Committee, and distinguished leader in the Boy Scouts of America and March of Dimes.

Habitat for Humanity Maui announced its second annual Disaster Recovery Fundraiser to be held at the historic Old Lahaina Lūʻau on Oct. 4, 2025. This event aims to raise essential funds to support the continued rebuilding of Lahaina, which was devastated by the catastrophic wildfires of 2023. All proceeds from the fundraiser will go directly towards recovery and reconstruction efforts. 

The crew of the Polynesian voyaging canoe, Hōkūleʻa sighted distant lights on the horizon, Saturday—marking their first visual confirmation of land since departing Hilo on June 3. A safety crew aboard the Hikianalia confirmed it was the island of Rangiroa in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia.

E&K Aloha ʻĀina, LLC is proposing a landfill diversion project which would convert municipal solid waste and mixed plastic waste into renewable natural gas. Through this waste-to-fuel project, waste would be sorted, processed, and thermo-chemically transformed for beneficial use, instead of being landfilled. This waste-to-fuel project is projected to result in landfill diversion of roughly 90% of all incoming material.

La Casita, a retail boutique offering one-of-a-kind items has officially opened in Waikapū at the Maui Tropical Plantation.

The University of Hawaiʻi Maui College hosts an Admissions Pop-Up on Wednesday, June 25 from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Kaʻaʻike Building on the Kahului campus.

Wehiwa Aloy became the first Mauian to win the Golden Spikes Award, and he’s also likely to become the first from the Valley isle to be selected in the first round of the MLB draft.

Community advocates, architects, engineers, transportations experts, planners and anyone interested in making their communities more walkable are invited to attend a free talk on walkability on Tuesday, June 24, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s Morgado Hall.

The Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents World Champions of Magic, The Clairvoyants, in a MACC Presents show at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 in the Castle Theater.

General registration is now open for Paddle for Life 2025, the annual fundraising voyage supporting Maui County’s cancer ʻohana.

The University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents has approved a $7.4 million, five-year subscription to EAB Navigate360 and EAB Edify, two integrated technology platforms designed to improve student outcomes at the 10 UH campuses.

Independence Day trips for Pacific Region residents are up 2.3% over last year and up 9.1% compared to 2019, according to the latest projections by AAA Hawaiʻi.

The Hawaiʻi State Board of Education has unanimously approved appointments of Leila Maeda-Kobayashi as complex area superintendent overseeing schools in the Kapaʻa-Kauaʻi-Waimea Complex Area and Kasie Kaleohano as complex area superintendent overseeing schools in the Hilo-Waiākea Complex Area. Maeda-Kobayashi has served since March as the deputy complex area superintendent of the Kapaʻa-Kauaʻi-Waimea Complex Area. Her experience within the […]

Kahikinui, along with Waiohuli and Launiupoko, were the first communities on Maui to earn Firewise USA recognition in 2016 — and now there are 34 with another 16 going through the process.

Maui County Federal Credit Union is teaming up once again with The Salvation Army for its annual Adopt a Backpack program to help local keiki head back to school with confidence and the supplies they need to succeed.