Maui News

Maui police donated over $2,000 to the Pacific Cancer Foundation yesterday. 

Maui Arts & Cultural Center presents the return to the MACC of Keali‘i Reichel and his Hālau Ke`alaokamaile in Kūkahi 2020, an evening of hula, mele and chant.

The nonprofit Maui Nui Marine Resource Council invites the public to a free talk on Monday, Dec. 9 at 5:30 p.m. at The Sphere at Maui Ocean Center to learn about the “The Coral Pledge,” a new initiative to reduce human impacts on Hawaiʻiʻs reefs year-round.

All Maui County pools will be closed today, Thursday, Nov. 28, 2019, in observance of the Thanksgiving Holiday.

Eight emerging leaders from Hawai‘i, including two from Maui were selected as part of the inaugural cohort of Obama Foundation Leaders: Asia-Pacific.

The greatest potential for coastal flooding impacts will be during the peak high tides from Thursday and Friday, which will occur before sunrise during the early morning hours; high tides are expected to peak around 4 a.m. on Nov. 28, and 4:40 a.m. on Nov. 29.

The St. Anthony School concert band is scheduled to play Christmas carols. The parade will feature the Baldwin High School cheerleading squad and Santa Claus.

The County of Maui Department of Environmental Management this week notified the US Environmental Protection Agency and the state Department of Health, reporting October 2016 findings from wastewater test samples of the presence of nitrophenol. The chemical is a metabolite of methyl parathion, the active ingredient in Penncap-M, the same banned pesticide identified in the recent Monsanto case on Maui.

The public is advised of a water quality exceedance of enterococci at Wailea Beach, Maui. Levels of 384 per 100 mL were detected during routine beach monitoring by the Department of Health Clean Water Branch.  That’s above the threshold of 130 enterococci per 100 mL.

An alligator lizard was found on a Christmas tree in Hilo on Hawaiʻi Island over the weekend and a green iguana was captured this week in Waimānalo, Oʻahu.

Here is a list of things the US Postal Service wants Hawaiʻi residents to know for mailing packages over the holidays. 

At approximately eight acres, the infestation encompasses several homes and some areas frequented by hikers and swimmers.

Thanksgiving is the peak day for home cooking fires in the US. The Red Cross urges everyone to never leave cooking food unattended — which is the most common cause of kitchen fires.

In an effort to improve learning environments for Mauiʻs keiki, Maui Hui Mālama staff have offered tips they have learned through working with frustrated youth.

This Sunday, a convoy of cyclists will embark on a 60 mile trek around the famed West Maui Mountains in an effort to raise funds for children in need.

The Salvation Army will be providing approximately 5,000 Thanksgiving holiday meals through annual meal events at locations statewide this week.

A Maui man succumbed to injuries sustained in a moped crash on the Kūihelani Highway earlier this month.

The lululemon Maui Pro, the final stop on the World Surf League Women’s Championship Tour, will be OFF again today (Wednesday, Nov. 27) due to lack of swell conditions at Honolua Bay.

The greatest potential for coastal flooding impacts will be during the peak high tides through Friday, Nov. 29, which will occur before sunrise during the early morning hours.

As the holiday season approaches, law enforcement officials are hoping to spread a simple, yet life saving message–donʻt drink and drive.