Maui News

A Balinese and Hawaiʻi-inspired beachfront home in Keawakapu, Maui is on the market, listed at $38 million. According to the data available through the REALTORS Association of Maui, there have only been three sales above the $30 million mark in the history of Maui home sales.

West side senior leader Arleen Gerbig and Maui County Council Member Yuki Lei Sugimura were honored as Kupuna Advocates of the Year at the virtual 49th Kupuna Aloha Celebration, organized by Maui Economic Opportunity and viewed by about 200 people live on July 30.

Maui County Councilmember Tasha Kama is on extended medical leave.

The mayor’s request to postpone the start of in-classroom learning has failed to gain the support of Governor David Ige.

Upon arrival, life-saving measures were being performed by bystanders until fire and medic personnel took over; however, those measures proved futile, according to a Maui Police Department spokesperson.

The confirmed cases included: 219 on O‘ahu (+3 probable); 74 on Hawai‘i Island (+2 probable); 41 on Maui (+3 probable); 11 on Kaua‘i (+3 probable); and 10 in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state (-1 probable).

Following an increase in the frequency and scale of ransomware attacks across the globe, Attorney General Clare E. Connors joins a bipartisan coalition of Attorneys General in urging businesses and government entities to immediately assess their current data security practices and take appropriate steps to protect operations and consumer data.

US Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) spoke on the Senate floor today to celebrate Carissa Moore’s Olympic Gold Medal win in surfing.

Because of a staffing shortage, the Lahaina office of the County of Maui Department of Finance’s Division of Motor Vehicles & Licensing will be closed today.

Mālama Maui Nui’s monthly Go Green Recycling event for West Maui residents will take place in Lahaina on Saturday, Aug. 14 from 9 am to noon at 1870 Honoapi’ilani Hwy (parking lot behind the Lahaina District Court).

Astronomers have captured the first-ever spin measurements of HR 8799, the famed system that made history as the very first exoplanetary system to have its image taken.

The state Department of Transportation is working on several road projects that will result in lane closures from July 31 to Aug. 6.

MFSS has been providing year-round Early Head Start services in Maui County for more than 23 years. This grant will allow MFSS to serve 119 pregnant women/0-3 year old children. Early Head Start promotes early childhood education and development, school readiness, and encourages parents to be better caregivers and teachers to their children.

The monthly test of the all-hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning Siren System, coordinated with the test of the Live Audio Broadcast segment of the Emergency Alert System is scheduled for Monday, Aug. 2 at 11:45 am.

A brush fire in Kaupō has burned an estimated five acres since it was first reported at 1:50 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021 in the area of Waiu and Nuʻu Landing. Fire officials say that as of 4:45 p.m., the fire was 90% contained.

In light of new CDC data showing the Delta variant can spread as easily as Chickenpox, Maui Mayor Michael Victorino is asking the Hawaiʻi Department of Education, Department of Health and the Ige Administration to postpone the return of classroom learning until the impacts of the current COVID surge on Maui County’s healthcare facilities can be assessed.

With a $100,000 OHA grant award, Hālau O Huluena will continue to perpetuate the healing tradition of lāʻau lapaʻau.

Maui Obituaries for the week ending Aug. 1, 2021. May they rest in peace.

The confirmed cases included: 274 on O‘ahu (+2 probable); 96 on Hawai‘i Island (+3 probable); 58 on Maui (+8 probable); six on Kaua‘i; and five in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state.

Many people living in the Hawaiian Islands are accustomed to feeling occasional earthquakes since the State of Hawai‘i is one of the most seismically active locations in the United States. Unlike some other earthquake-prone places in the U.S., for example California, where the earthquakes are related to tectonic plates sliding past each other, our earthquakes are related to volcanoes.