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The Maui County Department of Human Concerns Office on Aging is inviting community members to share their input on aging services, which will help shape future services and resources for older adults, caregivers and their families across Maui Nui. “The voices of our community are essential to shaping a stronger, more age-friendly Maui County,” County […]

As part of a community service and team-building initiative, the AAA employees who were visiting Maui partnered with Maui United Way to assemble and donate 102 bicycles for foster youth across Maui County.

The University of Hawaiʻi is launching a free monthly climate summary service beginning Wednesday that could help Maui County residents track drought conditions, watershed health, temperature and rainfall patterns in places such as ʻĪao Valley, Hāna, Kīhei and West Maui.

Mana Purdy was newly named executive director of Keahuolū and will be overseeing Native Hawaiian programming.

Residents are encouraged to attend the County of Maui’s Lahaina Community Meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 1, 2026, at the Lahaina Intermediate School cafeteria.

For the first time, Kalaupapa National Historical Park will offer public tours starting July 9, 2026. The tours will be provided twice a week, and reservations can be made beginning June 26.

Trauma from vehicle collisions caused the majority of documented deaths for the Pueo (Hawaiian short-eared owl), according to a statewide study led by researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The findings represent the most extensive mortality assessment to date for this culturally significant raptor, which is native to the Hawaiian Islands.

Island Energy Services, the exclusive licensee of the Texaco brand in Hawai’i, raised $100,000 for the American Red Cross Hawai’i Chapter through a statewide round-up campaign at its company-owned Texaco stations, the company announced.

Pukalani Terrace Center, in partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Maui, is proud to host its Fifth Annual Back-to-School Drive on Saturday, July 18, from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Pāʻia Spice Company received a bronze metal in the 2026 International Flavor Awards for its Big Haole’s Original Blend. The award came in the savory rub category. “I’m blown away,” owner Brad Beck said. “We started this company almost five years ago selling hand labeled bottles to people barbecuing at Hoʻokipa. Now, 40,000 bottles later […]

Maui Economic Opportunity welcomes six summer interns, offering them an opportunity for real-world job experience, to explore pathways that serve the community and maybe inspire them to return and become Maui County’s future leaders.

The Hawai’i Visitors and Convention Bureau has created a new executive position, chief brand and narrative officer, and named Travis Watanabe to fill it starting July 1.

The US Department of Justice’s Civil Division issued payments for about $17 million to 629 plaintiffs in two federal lawsuits stemming from the 2021 jet fuel leaks at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility on Oʻahu.

Episode 50 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption ended abruptly at 5:10 p.m. after 7 hours of continuous lava fountaining.

One alternative calls for building a temporary runway that is $300 million cheaper, while the other alternative builds a second permanent parallel runway for an island that relies heavily on air transportation for cargo and its economy.

Maui Christian Academy is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year, tracing its roots to a four-student home preschool founded in 1956 by missionaries Ed and Doris Todd.

Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center has opened Impressions & Imprints, a juried exhibition of printmaking, metalsmithing and ceramics on view through July 24 at the center’s galleries on the Kaluanui Estate in Upcountry Makawao.

Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green will travel to Utah from Saturday evening through July 2 to attend the Western Governors’ Association annual meeting and take over as the organization’s chair, according to the Office of the Governor.

US Sens. Mazie Hirono of Hawaiʻi and Jon Ossoff of Georgia introduced the Right to Vote Act, which would create the first affirmative federal voting rights guarantee for all eligible citizens.

Professor Bruce Houghton retired in 2025 from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa after 25 years as the Gordon A. Macdonald Chairperson of Volcanology, but although he retired and returned to New Zealand, his connections to volcanology in Hawaiʻi remain strong.