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The nonprofit public access station now is appealing a ruling that focuses on a 15-year franchise renewal that the state agreed to with cable company Spectrum.

Three students with roots on Maui—a Maui High graduate researching plant-based fire suppressants, a Seabury Hall senior focused on native plant restoration and a college student who found her calling working with the Maui Invasive Species Committee—have been selected as the 2026–2027 recipients of the Friends of Haleakalā National Park’s annual memorial scholarship.

This Independence Day, The Ritz-Carlton Maui, Kapalua invites guests and residents alike to an evening of live music, community and celebration at the Aloha Garden Pavilion. Headlining the festivities is country-pop sensation Dasha

Asthma is a chronic respiratory condition that affects people of all ages, including many families across Hawaiʻi. Managing asthma in the islands can be especially important due to environmental factors such as humidity, seasonal pollen, trade winds, and volcanic emissions that can affect air quality. With May being National Asthma and Allergy Awareness Month, now is an important time to understand how to recognize symptoms and take steps to manage asthma effectively.

A Lahaina native and community leader will be the featured speaker at next week’s Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset meeting to discuss ongoing efforts to help wildfire survivors rebuild their lives.

Maui restaurateur Sheldon Simeon, a James Beard Award finalist and “Top Chef” contestant, has designed a new main cabin meal program for Hawaiian Airlines that launches July 1 on most flights between Hawaiʻi and the US continent.

The base of Mauna Loa sitting on top of the old oceanic crust is only 6 miles below sea level, so the major magnitude-6.0 earthquake the night of Friday, May 22, happened deeper than the volcano — even deeper than the base of the ocean crust, which is bent downward by the weight of the Hawaiian Island chain.

Mayor Bissen will attend the US Army War College’s 71st annual National Security Seminar at Carlisle Barracks in Pennsylvania from May 31 through June 4. He will then attend the 94th annual meeting of the United States Conference of the Mayors from June 4 through June 7, 2026, in California.

Hawaiʻi  welcomed slightly fewer visitors in April 2026 than it did a year earlier, but those who came spent more—pushing total visitor spending to $1.77 billion for the month, a 4.8% increase over April 2025, according to preliminary data from the state Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism.

The Kūihelani Solar Phase 2 project needs to complete the permitting process before federal tax credits expire next year due to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Maui County logged its second wettest season in 30 years during the 2025–2026 wet season. Rainfall totals ran 100 to 250% of average across most of the county and catastrophic flooding hit multiple areas statewide, according to a summary released this week by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Emergency responders are on the scene of a motor vehicle accident in Makawao. Video from the scene at around 7:38 p.m. on Friday, May 29, 2026, shows a vehicle that appears to have collided with a motorcycle near the intersection of Makawao Avenue and Baldwin Avenue. An ambulance, police and fire units are responding. Further details are pending release.

Throughout the entirety of the response, HING personnel assisted a total of 138 individuals and three dogs. Air crews conducted search and rescue operations that aided 47 people and two dogs, while ground crews assisted 91 people and one dog. To mitigate flood impacts and assist residents in recovery, service members filled 4,420 sandbags and provided crucial debris removal assistance to 164 homes across the impacted areas.

A 40-year-old Kīhei man identified as Congressional candidate Kirill Basin, was placed under arrest Friday for first degree Terroristic Threatening after he allegedly entered a county building off of Main Street in Wailuku while brandishing a firearm and engaged in a verbal altercation with county employees, police said.

Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua was selected as the interim director of the Hawai‘i Papa O Ke Ao Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office for the UH System and UH Mānoa, pending UH Board of Regents approval.

Community organizer and Green Party candidate Pāʻele Kiakona officially filed his nomination papers for the Hawaiʻi State House of Representatives District 14 seat on Thursday morning. His campaign priorities focus on housing sovereignty, living wages, environmental stewardship, and genuine, community-led disaster recovery.

As part of their quarterly “Manaʻo on the Mountain” Community Potluck series, the community-led nonprofit Mālama Kula will host Rose Medeiros on June 1 for a talk on the history of Holy Ghost Church, Waiakoa, and stories from Kula throughout the years.

Work will be conducted underneath the Mokulehua Stream Bridge at mile marker 28 on Hāna Highway (Route 36). There will be intermittent holds of traffic of around five minutes during the work, which is scheduled from Monday, June 1 to Friday, June 5, from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

One year after breaking ground, Catholic Charities Housing Development Corporation announced continued progress on the construction of Hale Pilina, an affordable rental housing development that will provide 178 homes for Maui families in need of stable, affordable housing.

A 45-foot Response Boat-Medium crew from Coast Guard Station Maui embarked 21 passengers from the charter vessel Maui Diamond after its engines became disabled and emitted smoke while transiting to the harbor.