Maui News

Maui Fire Department personnel responded to three separate fires on Maui on Sunday, July 5, 2020, including one that caused $20,000 and displaced one person in Kanaio.

Maui’s Coral Reef Alliance has launched an at-home native planting opportunity for volunteers in lieu of other watershed restoration work, which was suspended in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Now it its fourth month, the Farm Produce Purchase Program is a food purchase and distribution program available to Maui farms/farmers that sold an average of $2,500 per month produce prior to March 2020.

The University of Hawai‘i Maui College’s Engineering Technology Program fielded two teams in the 2020 International CanSat Competition. Team Onipa‘a placed first and Team Paka‘a, placed 23.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) will host her next telephone town hall meeting to update Hawai‘i residents about COVID-19 at 4 p.m. HST on Wednesday, July 8, 2020.

The Maui Fire Department will conduct a single day live fire wildland training exercise on Tuesday, July 7, 2020. The training will take place on a parcel of Mahi Pono land just south of Haleakalā Highway and west of Keahua Road, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. This is an extension of the training conducted last month.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation advises Maui residents of the closure of Runway 2-20 for a taxiway reconstruction project scheduled to take place at the Kahului Airport on weekends from July 4 to August 1.

The initial posted recordings include activities such as how to make a ti leaf lei, arts and crafts activities, sports drills, agility training and stretching exercises. New activities will be posted to the web page every couple of weeks.

There are 25 new COVID-19 case reported for Hawaiʻi today–all on the island of Oʻahu–bringing the statewide count to 1,023 cases in Hawaiʻi over the course of the pandemic.  As a result of updated testing, one case was removed from the Oʻahu count, according to the state Department of Health. 

Maui Obituary Notices: Week of July 5. May they Rest In Peace. Brought to you in part by Ballard Family Mortuaries.

A list of lane closures slated for this week, July 4 to July 10.

Melvin R. Johnson Jr. was arrested for Operating a Vehicle Under the Influence of an Intoxicant on Saturday night.

There are 24 new COVID-19 case reported for Hawaiʻi today–19 on the island of Oʻahu, two each on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi and Kauaʻi, and one on Maui–bringing the statewide count to 999 cases in Hawaiʻi over the course of the pandemic. To date, 756 people (77.1%) have recovered including 115 (95%) recovery in Maui County. There are currently 224 active cases in the state, including seven on Maui.

Catholic Charities Hawai’i earlier this week welcomed the first tenants of its new Kahului Lani senior affordable housing complex on Maui. The first phase of the 165-unit senior affordable rental complex is located along Kane Street across from the Kahului Foodland.

Imua Family Services, Maui’s early childhood development agency, announced plans to purchase the Yokouchi Estate in Wailuku to create a community space for outdoor, nature based learning for island keiki.

Two 4+ magnitude earthquakes at Kīlauea this week are confident with a slip along the south flank fault and were likely aftershocks of a large 6.9 earthquake in May of 2018. Kīlauea’s south flank has been the site of 20 earthquakes of magnitude-4.0 or greater during the past 20 years.

Maui police are on the scene of a motor vehicle accident at Mile 11.5 near Papalaua Wayside Beach Park. Due to a slippery substance on the road, traffic is contraflow until further notice.

Yesterday’s 2,813 passenger total increased again from the day before, marking the highest number of out-of-state arrivals to Hawai‘i since the quarantine began.

There are 29 new COVID-19 case reported for Hawaiʻi today–25 on the island of Oʻahu, two on Maui, one on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi and one case that was diagnosed out-of-state–bringing the statewide count to 975 cases in Hawaiʻi over the course of the pandemic. State health officials say at least five cases represent three new events and possible clusters.

State officials are warning floatilla organizers and participants to cancel or face arrest.  Several hundred people have reportedly RSVP’d for the event being publicized on social media for the Forth of July holiday at an East O‘ahu beach.