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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.
The late council member's personal struggles to find housing and the fact that some of her kids had to move off island drove her passion for affordable housing, her family says.
Lahainaluna saw its remarkable Maui Interscholastic League record of 17 straight trips to state football tournaments come to an end with Saturday's result.
The Save Honolua Coalition wants to follow the success of places like Hā‘ena State Park on Kaua'i where visitor numbers were drastically reduced.
The Food and Nutrition Service notified states Friday that all November SNAP benefit allotments are suspended until sufficient federal funding is appropriated or the agency issues updated direction.
The company says its fields are getting "eaten alive by axis deer and feral pigs," and many Maui farms are facing similar challenges.
Kurt Suzuki, a 2001 graduate from Mauiʻs Baldwin High School, will become the first MLB manager from Hawai’i when he takes command of the Los Angeles Angels.
The Warriors rolled to a 27-7 win over Lahainaluna on Friday night at Kana‘iaupuni Stadium to clinch another trip to state with a 3-0 record in the second round of Maui Interscholastic League play — they were already the first-round champions in Division II with a 4-0 record.
Plans to rebuild the housing complex destroyed by the 2023 wildfire now call for an increase of 98 units, but with a four-year timeline, residents whose FEMA housing will end in February are left in limbo.
The State of Hawaiʻi continues to work on a 10-year management plan for a 3,434-acre parcel of watershed conservation land in Upper Kula that was acquired five years ago from a private trust.
Paul Tonnessen has been putting the final touches on Healing Hearts, the largest annual fundraiser of the Friends of the Children's Justice Center of Maui that will be held Friday night at the King Kamehameha Golf Club.
Kaiser Hawai'i employees say they're being treated like "second class" as their counterparts in other states make much higher salaries.
