Maui News

Maui police are on the scene of a motor vehicle accident on the Honoapiʻilani Highway near the “Pali” tunnel. 

The Federal Emergency Management Agency will host a workshop for businesses interested in contracting to supply needed products and services during federally declared disasters.

The actress/model recently landed her break-out role in the new Netflix film “Finding ʻOhana.”

Maui Electric Company personnel are responding to a power outage reported in the Lahaina area. 

Maui police say the Honoapiʻilani Highway is closed between Dickenson and Prison Street; and Prison Street is closed between Honoapiʻilani Highway and Waineʻe Street due to a motor vehicle collision which damaged a telephone pole. Traffic will be affected in these areas. Motorists are advised to use alternate routes.

Lane closure schedules may change at any time without further notice. All projects are weather permitting.

A live non-venomous ball python is being safeguarded by the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture in Hilo after it was reportedly run over by a vehicle Thursday night on a side road near Old Airport Road.

Administrative fines totaling $48,500 have been affirmed by Circuit Judge Greg K. Nakamura in a Board of Land and Natural Resources decision against illegal commercial lava boat tours on Hawai‘i Island.

Maui Mayor Michael Victorino says the County of Maui will not withdraw its appeal of the Lahaina injection well case from consideration by the US Supreme Court.

A gathering is planned on Maui on Sunday afternoon to mark the 100th Day or “Lā 100” of the presence of “protectors” at Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island.

Kamehameha Schools Maui senior, William Thompson, completed his senior project at Waiheʻe Elementary School by creating art with positive messages and painting them on the restroom stall doors. The idea was conceptualized…

There were 17 traffic fatalities on Maui last year. Five were in motor vehicles at the time, seven involved pedestrians; and another five were while riding motorcycles or mopeds.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation announced lane closures this weekend on the Hāna Highway for utility installation and retaining wall work.

Lahaina Gateway shopping center in West Maui welcomed new anchor tenant Ross Dress for Less over the weekend.  The discount retailer has taken over the former OfficeMax location, debuting an 18,620 square foot store that marks its third location on Maui.

Maui Judge Kelsey Kawano has been appointed to fill the vacancy on the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit. The judicial office has been vacant since the retirement of Circuit Judge Joseph E. Cardoza in June 2019.

In Hawaiʻi, 776 students were enrolled at one of Argosy University’s three Hawaiʻi campuses within weeks of Argosy University’s closure in March 2019. Thirteen Hawaiʻi students were enrolled at DCEH schools online at the time of those schools’ closure. There may be other Hawaiʻi students eligible for closed school discharge if they withdrew from a DCEH school before closure.

Ke Kula ‘O Pi’ilani, Maui’s first private Hawaiian immersion school, moves forward in the 2019-2020 school year, under a recent restructure in organization.

Mahi Pono, LLC on Maui will pre-harvest about 90 pounds of heirloom potato crops for the upcoming Hawaiʻi Food & Wine Festival, taking place this weekend on Maui. 

The mariners, all described as in their 60s, were spearfishing in the area when they ran into engine trouble, according to Maui Fire Services Chief Rylan Yatsushiro.

The existing drought conditions are expected to be eliminated by the end of the wet season, which runs from October 2019 through April of 2020.