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Maui Economic Opportunity has begun circulating a survey on the causes of poverty in Maui County to be used in the development of a Community Needs Assessment and Action Plan that the nonprofit generates every three years.

The Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea will launch a collaboration with Maui-based Project Reef, in a concerted effort to encourage “breaking up” with chemical sunscreen. The initiative launches on June 8, 2022, in conjunction with World Oceans Day, and comes ahead of Maui Countyʻs ban on the sale, distribution, and use of non-mineral sunscreens in Maui County, which goes into effect in October 2022.

Hawaiʻi Alpha Delta Kappa, Gamma Chapter awarded $1,000 scholarships to six Maui students for their outstanding academic excellence.

Maui residents donated fresh flowers and ti-leaves to the Office of the Mayor to make lei in honor of fallen heroes on Memorial Day.

A four-year, $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a project to construct a space weather station center on the UH Mānoa campus and deploy a neutron monitor on Maui.

The new crop of physicians include seven with roots in Maui County.

The 25-minute film features stories and perspectives from the Native Hawaiian community tied to the framework of OHA’s 2020-2035 Mana i Mauli Ola (Strength to Wellbeing) Strategic Plan.

The mid-rise, 89-unit project is located at 258 Kupuohi Street. This affordable project will consist of 20 one-bedroom units, 34 two-bedroom units and 35 three-bedroom units.

US Congressman Kaialiʻi Kahele joined 130 of his colleagues in the US House of Representatives to call on Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip James Clyburn to take action now and deliver on gun safety legislation.

Film producer Lane Nishikawa is having a film premiere on Maui about the illegal incarceration of some 120,000 Japanese in the United States during World War II — two thirds of them American citizens — and their successful 10-year fight to seek Congressional reparations and an apology.

The new dispensary is located at 115 N. Market Street in Wailuku. Sales are expected to begin on May 28.

83 public schools will serve meals free of charge over the summer to children ages 18 years and younger, regardless of public school enrollment status, through its summer food service program.

In 2021, 63% (20 of the 32) vehicle occupants that died in Hawaiʻi, were not wearing seat belts. Preliminary data from Jan. 1 to May 25, 2022, shows 8 of the 22 motor vehicle occupants who died in a crash were reported as not wearing their seat belt.

A 51-year-old man sustained critical life-threatening injuries after he was struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross the Hāna Highway on foot on Thursday morning.

The state Department of Health is reporting a COVID-19 count of 8,924 new cases over the past week, between May 19-25, 2022. The latest data represents a ninth consecutive week of increases in new infections. 

The Mamoru and Aiko Takitani Foundation, Inc. has awarded nine high school seniors from Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi scholarship awards in its annual Legacy Scholarship Program. 

The $642K raised is the largest charitable impact figure for the local community since the event moved to Maui in 1999.

Maui is listed as the third best place in the World to visit, and the 4th best place to visit in the US, according to the best vacation rankings for 2022-2023, published this week by U.S. News & World Report.  

There is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi after large earthquakes reported in Peru overnight, and SE of the Loyalty Islands early this morning.

Maui Mayor Michael Victorino is calling for the public to use “respectful masking” and practice “COVIDsense” amid a rise in hospitalizations on Maui.