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The 2023 Maui wildfires "still weigh heavily on everybody in the department, and it was something that a lot of our firefighters faced that day that they hope to never have to see again,” Maui Fire Chief Brad Ventura said.
The Central East Maui Little League All-Stars came back from a 3-0 deficit to claim the national championship at the Intermediate 50/70 World Series in Livermore, Calif., with a 7-3 win over Greater New Orleans Little League on Saturday.
“Chief of War,” a project of Jason Momoa’s that has been 15 years in the making, is set during the wars to unify the Hawaiian islands in the last decades of the 18th century and told from the perspective of a real-life chief conflicted over the bloody campaign.
The mass evacuations, business closures and frequent warnings from government officials about Tuesday's tsunami warning reflect the serious approach to potential disasters two years after the deadly fires on Maui.
Gov. Josh Green said shortly after 6 p.m. that buoys off Midway Atoll indicated that the wave measured 6 feet from peak to trough, “so a 3-foot wave riding on top of the ocean.”
The team has won all 10 of its games this summer, at the state and West Region levels, to qualify for the 2025 Intermediate 50/70 World Series in Livermore, Calif., that began Sunday. Central East Maui received a bye and will open play today 1 p.m. HST in the event that runs through Aug. 3.
The federal funding will be available to help residents rebuild or afford a home for the first time in Lahaina or Kula, with . applications opening in August.
To make the return of the fair happen, Maui County is providing $1.5 million in funding — about double the cost of the event the last it was held in 2019.
Kaholi Krau, the first Mauian to attend the elite IMG Academy in Florida for more than one year, has returned home to play football and make up for lost time with his family.
The Central East Maui Little League All-Stars won the West Region championship at the Little League Intermediate 50/70 level in Nogales, Ariz., on Thursday. The win advances the Maui team to the Little League Intermediate 50/70 World Series in Livermore, Calif., Sunday through Aug. 3. The CEMLL ran up a 7-0 record in the tournament […]
Since striking an agreement with the State Historic Preservation Division in April, Maui County has been enforcing historic guidelines more consistently in order for people to be approved for building permits.
Having two players from Maui drafted in the same year is rare — in 1999, Wehiwa’s dad Jamie Aloy and future World Series champ Shane Victorino were chosen in the same draft.
The 88-unit temporary housing complex for fire survivors has taken 1 1/2 years longer to build that expected, and risen in cost from $14 to $20 million, but the need for it has not diminished.
Seabury Hall 2021 graduate Ella Connor, who became a beach volleyball All-American at Cal Poly, struggled with panic attacks and attempted to take her life twice but is now doing "amazing" with help from her four-legged companion.
Maui County said that of the 46 people living there, 21 went into shelter and two entered recovery programs. On Thursday, 10 truckloads of trash were removed and two truckloads of personal items were put into storage, where residents have 30 days to claim them.
Reese Yap is instructing the first Beauty Operator Program at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College, with 13 students aged 19 to 61 learning hands-on beauty courses to become licensed as an esthetician and/or nails technician.
