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Monday Morning MIL: Baseball clinics for Maui youths feature major leaguers, University of Hawaiʻi players

by Rob Collias ·

More than 150 youth players were at the event Sunday at Maehara Stadium, one day after the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa baseball team held a youth clinic at Hitter’s Paradise Indoor Training Facility in Kahului that featured 120 youth players.

What’s the health toll of 2023 Maui wildfires on firefighters? Long-term study aims to find out

by Colleen Uechi ·

Scientists took another round of samples from local firefighters last month, and while early results show changes in their blood, only time and more data about their exposure that day will tell how it affects their health.

Defending champion Kamehameha Schools Maui rolls into Division II state championship game for fourth time in five years

by Rob Collias ·

Together, one of the most prolific running back tandems in the state led the Warriors to a 37-18 win over sister school Kamehameha Hawai’i in a semifinal of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Division II tournament on Saturday night.

Host Chaminade set to play in Southwest Maui Invitational in Lahaina for first time since 2019

by Rob Collias ·

This yearʻs field for the Southwest Maui Invitation also includes No. 25 North Carolina State, Seton Hall, Southern California, Boise State, Arizona State and Texas.

As frustrated West Maui community waits for state water permit approvals, dispute over golf course irrigation grows

by Colleen Uechi ·

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.

Earthjustice asks water commission to stop Kapalua golf courses from using drinking water for irrigation 

by Colleen Uechi ·

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.

Monday Morning MIL: From Oregon to Hawai‘i, ‘brothers’ cheer each other on in special football weekend

by Rob Collias ·

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.

Nation’s first communal dialysis home in Hāna needs repairs to keep operating at full capacity

by Colleen Uechi ·

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.

Fire hazards meet housing crisis as Maui County clears out another homeless encampment

by Colleen Uechi ·

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.

Biggest water users in West Maui before fire were non-owner-occupied homes, report finds

by Colleen Uechi ·

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.

Displaced 77-year-old Lahaina fire survivor prepares to buy first home through Maui County program

by Colleen Uechi ·

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.

Monday Morning MIL: Kamehameha Maui seeded No. 1 in Division II football; Baldwin seeded No. 5 in Division I

by Rob Collias ·

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.

Where open land meets development, Maui residents urged to view risks like a firefighter

by Colleen Uechi ·

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.

Maui’s go kart track no longer a ‘ghost town’ with first event in six years on Nov. 15

by Rob Collias ·

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. 

Hawaiʻi urges national transportation secretary to spare state from mandated flights cuts due to federal shutdown

by Rob Collias ·

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.

Maui Nui community steps up to help federal workers, SNAP recipients affected by government shutdown

by Colleen Uechi ·

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.

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