Maui Business

The purpose of the program is to provide cost reimbursement to farmers and ranchers on Molokaʻi to help them meet the costs of compliance with the requirements of the US Food and Drug Administration, the Food Safety Modernization Act and state food safety laws.

Alaska Airlines announced a $99 one-way fare sale taking place March 3 to March 5 for travel between Hawai‘i and California. The fare sale continues until 10 p.m. HST on March 5 and is good for travel between April 21, 2020 and May 20, 2020 for flights on Tues/Wed only on most of the airline’s HI-CA routes.

Kāʻanapali Beach Hotel, and sister property, The Plantation Inn, were recognized in HAWAIʻI Magazine’s 8th annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

Marvin DeCastro is the 2019 Maui Economic Opportunity, Inc. Driver of the Year.

Pacific Media Group has acquired the Paradise Television Network in a transaction that took effect on March 1, 2020.

Paul Mattfeld is the new Administrator of Hale Makua Wailuku, a skilled and intermediate nursing and rehabilitation center and adult residential care home on Maui.

Visitor spending on Maui increased 7.7 percent to $510.7 million in January 2020, year-over-year, according to preliminary statistics released today by the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority.

Maui highlights include: $40 million for the widening of Puʻunēnē Avenue from Kamehameha Avenue to Kūihelani Highway; $11 million for Kāʻanapali Beach Restoration and Berm Enhancement; and $4 million for the acquisition of Nā Wai ʻEha as part of the CIP budget for the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) is calling for the suspension of flights from Japan and South Korea to prevent the spread of COVID-19, also known as the novel coronavirus.

Prior to joining Kamehameha Schools, Darren Pai served as Director of Corporate Communications for real estate company Alexander & Baldwin.

Plans are currently underway for a multimillion dollar project to build a new budget hotel where the old Maui Palms hotel once stood along Kahului Harbor. Several building permits were filed on Friday for the project which is situated on vacant land between the Maui Beach Hotel and the Maui Seaside Hotel in Kahului.

Hawaiian Airlines today announced its decision to temporarily suspend its five-times-weekly nonstop service between Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport (HNL) and Incheon International Airport (ICN), beginning March 2 through April 30, due to a spike in COVID-19 cases in South Korea.

An environmental court ruled Monday that the Maui County Department of Public Works violated state law by failing to conduct environmental review for a streetlights project that plaintiffs said “threatens harm to Maui’s imperiled seabirds and sea turtles.”

“My small business has been paying all my employees a minimum wage of $15 since October 2015. It means less money goes to my retirement, but it’s the right thing to do so my employees don’t have to work two or three jobs just to get by,” said Representative Tina Wildberger. “My heart breaks for the families who can’t afford to pay for their kids’ school lunches because the legislature hasn’t found a path to raise the minimum wage to keep up with the cost of living.”

Applications for fall semester scholarships must be submitted online by 4 p.m., on Monday, March 2.

From 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on March 14, 15 percent of sales proceeds will benefit the Maui Humane Society.

More than 180 notices of warning and 80 notices of violation were issued to illegal vacation rental operators in 2019.

Meetings will be held on Maui, Oʻahu, and Hawaiʻi Island in March.

MEO’s Business Development Program graduated six students from its latest Core Four Business Planning course last week.

Lahaina-based ocean recreation company Maui Surf Clinics has been awarded the Sustainable Tour Operator Certification from the Sustainable Tourism Association of Hawaiʻi.