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Emergency and repair crews are responding to a water main break in Wailuku.

The confirmed cases included: 266 on O‘ahu (+2 probable); 65 on Hawai‘i Island (-1 probable); 34 on Maui (-3 probable); six on Kaua‘i; and 18 in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state (+2 probable).

St. Anthony School Maui began the 2021-2022 school year in-person on Monday with its highest enrollment in over a decade, a new Head of School, new church leadership, and is looking forward to unveiling their own Athletic Center on campus.

A Balinese and Hawaiʻi-inspired beachfront home in Keawakapu, Maui is on the market, listed at $38 million. According to the data available through the REALTORS Association of Maui, there have only been three sales above the $30 million mark in the history of Maui home sales.

Maui County Councilmember Tasha Kama is on extended medical leave.

The mayor’s request to postpone the start of in-classroom learning has failed to gain the support of Governor David Ige.

Upon arrival, life-saving measures were being performed by bystanders until fire and medic personnel took over; however, those measures proved futile, according to a Maui Police Department spokesperson.

The confirmed cases included: 219 on O‘ahu (+3 probable); 74 on Hawai‘i Island (+2 probable); 41 on Maui (+3 probable); 11 on Kaua‘i (+3 probable); and 10 in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state (-1 probable).

US Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) spoke on the Senate floor today to celebrate Carissa Moore’s Olympic Gold Medal win in surfing.

A brush fire in Kaupō has burned an estimated five acres since it was first reported at 1:50 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021 in the area of Waiu and Nuʻu Landing. Fire officials say that as of 4:45 p.m., the fire was 90% contained.

In light of new CDC data showing the Delta variant can spread as easily as Chickenpox, Maui Mayor Michael Victorino is asking the Hawaiʻi Department of Education, Department of Health and the Ige Administration to postpone the return of classroom learning until the impacts of the current COVID surge on Maui County’s healthcare facilities can be assessed.

The confirmed cases included: 274 on O‘ahu (+2 probable); 96 on Hawai‘i Island (+3 probable); 58 on Maui (+8 probable); six on Kaua‘i; and five in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state.

The Maui Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance with any information on the whereabouts of Amy Jackson, 47.

The Maui Police Department’s bomb squad responded to a Wailea home after a piece of unexploded ordnance was found on the property while yard work was being done yesterday.

More than 200 people joined in a memorial paddle out in West Maui today in honor of distinguished kumu Haunani Kay Trask, on a day established 178 years ago to recognize Hawaiʻi’s sovereignty following a five month occupation by the British government.

The state Department of Health reports that there were 485 additional COVID-19 cases in Hawai‘i on Saturday. Today’s total is the largest single day total for Hawaiʻi since the pandemic began. Yesterday’s 622 cases was higher, but accounted for an interruption in electronic lab reporting from earlier in the week.

Hawaiʻi is averaging more than 300 COVID-19 cases per day over the last three days, as the state experiences a rise in cases involving the Delta variant.

A 45-year-old California woman was injured today when the top 20 feet of an 80 foot coconut tree broke off and fell, striking her. The incident was reported at 4:41 p.m. on Friday, July 30, 2021 in the Kāʻanapali Beach Club area of West Maui.

The Department of Water Supply is urging customers in South and Central Maui to conserve water due to extreme drought conditions.

A 27-year-old man was cited today for harvesting 345 undersized ‘opihi from the shoreline at Onekahakaha Beach Park on Hawaiʻi Island.