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The water commission has yet to approve any of the more than 140 permit applications for water use in West Maui that were filed two years ago shortly before the Lahaina fire.
The environmental law firm claims the golf courses unlawfully used millions of gallons of potable water to irrigate their greens, and that the state water commission chair knew about it.
Iapani "Poncho" Laloulu and Fa'anu Ma'o were always close growing up, Laloulu on O’ahu and Ma’o on Maui, but they grew closer as Ma’o’s mother, Failagi Laloulu Ma’o, battled breast cancer that first hit her in 2017 when Fa’anu was 9 years old and Poncho was 13.
Before Hale Pōmaika‘i Community Dialysis Center opened 16 years ago in Hāna, patients had to travel four-hours roundtrip to Central Maui three times a week for the life-saving treatments.
Advocates for houseless people say sweeps are not the long-term solution, with some residents kicked out of Maui Lani on Wednesday the same people who were booted out of Amala Place in Kahului during a previous sweep three months earlier.
The state water commission is trying to decide who should get permits to use water in West Maui, with 93 existing use permits and 48 new applications under review.
George Dacuycuy and his grandson, 21, are among the first applicants to get the go-ahead from the Ho‘okumu Hou first-time homebuyers program.
The Warriors are taking the "college bowl" approach, spending the four weeks before the state tournament studying film, lifting weights and getting healthy before they play a semifinal game in the state tournament on Nov. 22.
Residents can do the kind of prep work firefighters would to make their homes defensible, and they can do it long before the threat of fire arrives.
The Maui Go Karters Association will hold its first race day since 2019, a “time attack” event on Nov. 15 at the Superkarts USA-sanctioned track in Pu'unene.
Maui's Kahului Airport has managed to deal with the federal government shutdown with minimal impacts, but that is about to change with the FAA mandating flights to be cut at major airports and with transportation employees about to lose a second paycheck.
Food boxes, donated meals and loan payment pauses have been geared toward helping folks afford over a month's worth of lost paychecks and food stamps.
Saturday night’s second-place finish felt different than 2007, 2012 or 2014 when Seabury Hall was also the Division II state runner-up; the Spartans fought back from two sets down to force a fifth set that came down to the wire before bowing to Kapa’a of the Kauai Interscholastic Federation.
More than 94% of Maui County is under some kind of drought as Hawai'i comes off the third-driest season in the last 30 years.
More than 140 vendors will have a chance Friday to show their wares to about 2,000 wholesalers and shoppers from 1:30 to 6 p.m. in the “Buyers Preview and Exclusive Shopping Day” when tickets to enter are $36 per person and on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., the “Big Shopping Day” that is open to everyone, is expected to draw between 8,000 and 10,000 people with tickets priced at $9 per person.
Mark Rolfing has survived stage 4 cancer and is now putting his energy into helping to save the PGA Tour tournament he was instrumental in bringing to Maui 28 years ago.
