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Eight people were displaced following a fire at the Harbor Lights Condominiums in Kahului early Sunday morning. At least eight individuals were displaced and were being assisted by the American Red Cross. One resident was treated for possible smoke inhalation.

Two hālau from Maui brought home multiple awards from 2024 Queen Liliʻuokalani Keiki Hula competition held at the Neal S. Blaisdell Center in Honolulu, July 25-27. The event, now in its 49th year, drew hundreds of participants from 18 hālau across the state, with the largest contingent of 57 dancers coming from Wailuku, Maui.

Hawai‘i Department of Transportation (HDOT) crews will be restriping Honoapi‘ilani Highway (Route 30) between Kapunakea Street and Keawe Street fronting the Lahaina Cannery Mall in preparation for the reopening of the highway at noon on Thursday, Aug. 1.

A 77-year-old visitor was airlifted to safety after he was injured in a 25-foot fall from Puʻu Kauiki while attempting to access Kaihalulu “Red Sand” Beach in Hāna. The man suffered from facial and other bodily injuries consistent with a fall, according to department reports. Crews responded to the call at 1:27 p.m. on Saturday, […]

The Kukui Mall parking lot was overflowing recently, spilling onto busy traffic on South Kīhei Road on a sultry summer night. A closer look revealed the reason: patrons crowding into Cool Cat Cafe, relocated last month to South Maui after wildfire destroyed its longtime Wharf Cinema Center location, across from the famed Banyan Tree in historic Lahaina town.

Hawaiʻi Gas filed an application with the Hawaiʻi Public Utilities Commission on Friday requesting adjustments to utility gas rates on all islands. The rate increase would provide for increased reliability and energy resiliency and cover operational and maintenance costs that have gone up significantly over the past seven years.

Members of the Maui Strikers Mixed Plate 2010 Girls Soccer Team have returned home after finishing first and second in summer tournaments in Oregon.

The Maui Chamber of Commerce is reminding the community that nominations are still being accepted for the Annual Mayor’s Small Business Awards in 2024 and are due on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. All nominees and winners will be honored during an event on Sept. 19, 2024.

The monthly test of the all-hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning Siren System is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, at 11:45 a.m. The siren test will be coordinated with a test of the Live Audio Broadcast segment of the Emergency Alert System.

Since its inception in 2005, this grant program has provided over $376,000 to public schools across Hawaiʻi, funding programs, tools, supplies, and equipment to boost science education. Public schools serving intermediate, high school, and college-grade students on Oʻahu, Maui, and Molokaʻi are eligible to apply.

The prone paddleboard race was the featured competition for an international field of athletes in the last of two race weekends celebrating the 25th Moloka’i-2- O’ahu Paddleboard World Championships.

“By putting AI-enhanced tools directly into the hands of local producers, we’re not just developing new technology—we’re cultivating a more sustainable and resilient agricultural future for our islands,” said Sayed Bateni, project principal investigator and professor in the UH Mānoa Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering and Water Resources Research Center.

For a sixth year, Pukalani Superette has completed a school supply donation to Pukalani Elementary School’s entire fourth grade class.

The Maui Hotel & Lodging Association has distributed a total of $1,559,449 to 59 nonprofit beneficiaries of the Maui County Charity Walk.  

The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua has announced a special performance by Maui’s own Anuhea on Friday, Aug. 2 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

US Rep. Jill Tokuda will be the keynote speaker this week when Hawaiʻi Job Corps Center holds its commencement ceremony at 1 p.m. Friday at the Maunaloa campus. Eighteen young men and women will receive certificates in trades such as culinary arts, facility maintenance, hospitality & lodging and business technologies.

Fifty-nine Maui County nonprofits will share $1,559,449 raised during the Maui Hotel & Lodging Association’s annual Maui County Charity Walk that happened last May.

Six new, public preschool classrooms will open in Maui County this fall for the 2024-2025 school year, announced Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and the state’s Ready Keiki Initiative on Friday. The pre-K schools enroll 20 students per classroom at no cost to parents.

AARP Hawai`i and Senior Planet are offering free Tech Talk classes Aug. 2 at Kaunoa Senior Center in Spreckelsville to teach kupuna about managing their private information online and about artificial intelligence and how to recognize when something has been created by AI.

A beachfront estate in Wailea-Mākena, Maui, Hawaii, is set to hit the auction block next month via Concierge Auctions. The estate, 4610 Mākena Road, is listed at $33 million and will be presented in cooperation with Nancy Callahan of Coldwell Banker Island Properties and Paul Stukin of Deep Blue HI.