The state Department of Transportation conducted a groundbreaking ceremony for the $46 million Kahului Airport South TSA Checkpoint Project. The project is expected to be completed in December 2026.

The state Department of Education held a blessing and groundbreaking ceremony Thursday morning for a $20 million rental housing development for educators and school staff in Lahaina. The project addresses a critical workforce housing shortage and supports efforts to stabilize and retain staff at West Maui schools following the August 2023 wildfires.

The County of Maui Office of Recovery, Lahaina Filipino fire survivors and community members gathered to celebrate the official launch of the Lahaina Filipino Fire Survivors Association on Tuesday. LFFSA, an initiative of the Hawaiʻi Workers Center, is a grassroots organization of directly impacted worker leaders organizing for a long term recovery that addresses the most crucial needs of Lahaina’s Filipino fire survivors in the aftermath of the 2023 wildfires.

Gov. Josh Green, M.D., signed historic climate impact legislation into law on Tuesday. Act 96 (Senate Bill 1396) is a first-in-the-nation initiative that establishes a climate impact fee, or “Green Fee,” creating a stable source of funding for environmental stewardship, hazard mitigation and sustainable tourism in Hawaiʻi.

Applications are now being accepted for Hale O Piʻikea I, the first phase of a County-supported, three-phase affordable rental housing initiative by ʻIkenākea Development that will deliver 223 rental homes upon completion. 

In actuality, the typical household can comfortably afford a $379,000 house. But in 2024, there were zero homes sold within that price range, and only a half dozen single-family transactions under $500,000, according to the LCLT report.

Several Hawaiʻi-born actors are hitting the big screen in the live-action “Lilo & Stitch” when it opens in theaters this Friday, May 23. Among them is Kaipo Dudoit of Oʻahu who plays the role of David Kawena.

The Hawaiʻi Community Foundation, through its Maui Strong Fund, has committed up to $8 million to help restore a vital emergency shelter and affordable housing facility in Lahaina, closing a critical funding gap for Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Centers Inc., one of the island’s longest-standing service providers for Maui’s unhoused.

The complex will prioritize families displaced by the August 2023 wildfires, offering stability to a community hit hard by both the disaster and Maui’s ongoing housing crisis.

A Maui teacher, who along with other educators was detained by federal law enforcement officers during an early morning raid at a Kahului home Tuesday morning, said agents were looking for a convicted felon.

The Los Angeles Rams are bringing a Minicamp to Maui from June 16-19, and will host on-field team activities on June 17 and 18, featuring players in workout gear at War Memorial Stadium in Wailuku. The “Mauicamp Powered by the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority” is being offered under a partnership to promote tourism to Maui and Hawaiʻi.

Molokaʻi residents could be the first to benefit from a county-funded, voluntary deed restriction program, a measure that cleared its first hurdle before the Maui County Council on Friday.

In 2023, the Maui County Council put aside $2.75 million to help families build ʻohana units, but problems with the program have stalled the awarding of grants.

In honor of National Trauma Awareness Month, Maui Health is proud to announce that Maui Memorial Medical Center has been verified as an American College of Surgeons (ACS) Level III Trauma Center.

As Lahaina begins to rebuild in the wake of the August 2023 wildfire disaster, residents and visitors of the beloved historic town are asking whether it will retain the historic character that went up in smoke and ashes.

The network has grown to 6,200 trees across 25 grow hubs, with volunteers like the Williams family, who lost their home in the Lahaina fire and are now growing trees to give back to the community.

The wāhine of Hula Hālau ʻO Kamuela under the direction of Kumu Kunewa Mook and Kauʻionālani Kamanaʻo won the overall title at the 62nd Annual Merrie Monarch Festival, in Hilo Hawaiʻi.

The Maui Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying two individuals involved in two armed robberies in Upcountry Maui on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. The department released video in the hopes of obtaining new information.

Kahiko night at the Merrie Monarch Festival featured hula in the ancient style with 27 groups performing Friday night in the annual competition in Hilo, Hawaiʻi. The festival continues tonight with ʻauana or modern hula, followed by results from the 62nd event.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health is urging residents and visitors to take precautions as elevated volcanic gas emissions from the recently paused Kīlauea eruption continue to produce vog and poor air quality across the islands.