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The Maui Food Bank today announced that the National Association of Letter Carriers’ 33rd annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive collected over 26,000 pounds of food from Maui residents on Saturday, May 10. This community-wide effort will help provide meals to local families facing food insecurity.

Wildfire debris transfer, HECO updates, and financial counseling from Hale Mahaolu are among topics to be discussed.

Update: (May 23, 2025) The Hawai‘i Department of Health Maui Food Safety Branch allowed a Maui location of L&L Hawaiian Barbecue to reopen, issuing a green “pass” placard during a follow-up inspection on May 23, 2025. The establishment, operated by Maui L & L Food Inc., is located at 270 Dairy Road, Unit #170, Kahului, within the Maui Marketplace Food Court.

The Maui Chamber of Commerce is reminding the community that product vendor applications for the 12th Annual 2025 Hawaiian Airlines Made in Maui County Festival are being accepted until the deadline of June 2.

Forecasters with NOAA’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center and Climate Prediction Center today said the outlook calls for 1 to 4 tropical cyclones across the central Pacific this season.

The County of Maui Department of Public Works is starting work Friday, May 16, 2025, on the installation of four speed tables on Pūlehu Road in the vicinity of the Central Maui Landfill. 

Hawaiʻi Children’s Action Network Speaks! (HCAN Speaks!), a nonprofit advocacy organization supporting Hawaiʻi families, is celebrating the passage of several bills that are aimed at giving working families relief.

Hawaiʻi-based roaster Lion Coffee has launched a new 100% Maui Coffee made exclusively with beans from Mahi Pono Farms in Kahului.

Hawaiian Electric donated to Maui Economic Opportunity a total of 150 toiletry and hygiene items, including shampoo, soap, toothbrushes, toothpaste and laundry soap, to be given to Head Start preschool families and Community Services clients in need.

The annual celebration—believed to be the longest-running Filipino fiesta in the United States—was first held in 1970.

A new performance blending hula, contemporary dance and storytelling is set to premiere in Wailuku this June, created by acclaimed Native Hawaiian choreographer Christopher Kaui Morgan and inspired by queer Hawaiian moʻolelo.

Maui ocean conservationists have started a new speaker series exploring cultural stewardship and coastal resilience.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health, together with the Hawaiʻi Water Safety Coalition and the YMCA, is raising awareness about drowning risks and prevention as the state observes Hawaiʻi Water Safety Day on May 15.

An apparent road rage incident led to a physical altercation in which one man was stabbed in Waiehu, Wednesday morning.

The program reimburses farmers and ranchers in Hawaiʻi, Alaska and other insular areas for transportation costs of supplies like feed, fertilizer and equipment parts.

Bacon Universal will host a two-day Kubota Orange Days sales event at its Wailuku branch on Thursday and Friday, May 15–16, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The 21st annual Ian Walsh Menehune Mayhem youth surf contest will take place May 17–18, 2025, at Hoʻokipa Beach Park.

Marvin Miles of the Maui Police Department has been chosen for a national award from L.E.A.D.

The deadly Maui wildfire disaster displaced 5,000 people and has now left Hawaiʻi with the dubious distinction of having the nation’s highest rate of homelessness, according to a report released today by the University of Hawaiʻi Economic Research Organization. The UHERO report also underscores that the wildfires aggravated Maui County’s already acute shortage of housing. […]

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