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Kamehameha Maui had 11 senior starters play their final high school game on Friday, including the school’s all-time leading rusher Zedekaiah Campbell, college-football-bound offensive lineman Pa’u Spencer, and defensive leader Kolt Kaho’ohanohano.

Starting Dec. 15, loading and unloading activities will be allowed on a permitted basis. Some companies haven’t been operating since the fire damaged their vessel.

To cap the night, Zedekaiah Campbell scored his 22nd touchdown of the season on a 16-yard run that put him over the 1,000-yard mark for rushing on the season and broke the school record that he set last year.

State water regulators have clarified data regarding groundwater pumping in Central Maui, acknowledging that while current withdrawals exceed official sustainable yield limits, those limits are conservative estimates that are now under re-evaluation. The clarification comes following an Oct. 28 staff briefing before the state Commission on Water Resource Management. The main focus of the briefing […]

Baker-Mazara, whose 23-point performance led the Southern California Trojans to an 88-75 win over the Arizona State Sun Devils, also won the tournament last year with Auburn before he transferred to USC.

The pilot project that released five ʻalalā (Hawaiian crows) into the forests of Maui in November of 2024 is taking steps to expand the flock. Two ʻalalā, a male and female, were recently translocated to the field aviary where the first five birds got their start more than a year ago.

This December, Queen Kaʻahumanu Center is celebrating the holidays by spotlighting Hawaiʻi-based creators and brands through a series of special pop-up shops throughout the center. Featured Hawaiʻi brands include: Lokal Vibes, Manaola Hawaiʻi, Happy Wahine, Kahulaleʻa, Born Hawaiʻi, and Get Nutz Wear.

The Maui County Council failed to reach a majority decision Tuesday afternoon in appointing a successor to the late Council Member Natalie “Tasha” Kama, effectively handing the selection authority to Mayor Richard Bissen.

After a landscape-changing announcement on Monday morning of a $50 million NIL agreement between the Big 12 Conference and the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Dr. Tom Buning, Chaminade director of athletics, acknowledged they may have to consider the same to keep the Southwest Maui Invitational college basketball tournament that Chaminade hosts annually at the Lahaina Civic Center in the mix of top early-season multi-team event tournament destinations. 

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.

The Salvation Army Hawaiian & Pacific Islands Division’s Kahului Corps will hold its annual Thanksgiving meal service on Wednesday, Nov. 26, at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College.

Differing personalities, philosophies and policy positions surfaced Thursday afternoon as Maui County Council members interviewed three applicants vying to fill the unexpired term of the late Council Member Natalie “Tasha” Kama.

Tears, laughter and the soaring voices of 31 grandchildren filled the Castle Theater on Wednesday morning to celebrate a life of love, service and faith as Maui bid farewell to Maui County Council Member Natalie “Tasha” Kama.

Maui County faces a disproportionately high rate of ocean drowning fatalities, driven largely by the high number of visitors lured by the ocean’s beauty but unprepared for its hidden dangers.

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 Maui County Department of Water Supply is taking the first steps toward developing its first publicly owned desalination facility in West Maui. The project would extend the arid region’s water resources beyond current ground and surface water limitations that currently force the department to cope with a Stage 2 water shortage. With a desalination […]

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.

Marking a significant chapter in rebuilding, the County of Maui Office of Recovery announced that eight families received First-Time Homebuyer Opportunity Program shopping letters today, which allow them to begin shopping for a house within their approved price range.

The bill that would phase out transient vacation rental uses in the apartment zoning districts is being scheduled for a special council meeting Dec. 1 at 9 a.m., Council Chair Alice L. Lee announced today.

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.