Maui News

Hawaiʻi Attorney General Clare E. Connors joined a multistate coalition, led by California and Massachusetts, in opposition to the Trump Administration’s rule limiting access to the asylum process.

This year’s Paddle for Life has raised over $225,000 so far for Maui County’s cancer community. 

Witness Kyle Keoho said, “He comes in with a machete and then he starts like threatening us in like some weird mafia… (saying) ‘You guys are aliens. I’ve been sending them to the moon,’ or ‘You guys are the demons. I send them to the moon.’ Then he yells out his name and chops him in his neck,” according to Keoho who witnessed his friend fall to the ground.

The first Safeway Fuel Station on Maui opened up for business quietly last week Friday, selling unleaded gasoline for $3.19 a gallon.

Preventing the degradation of the native forest and facilitation of conservation efforts could save the local water utility up to $1.4 million and make important contributions to local water supplies in East Maui according to research conducted by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

New videos of humpback whales blowing bubbles are providing “novel insights” into how whales capture their prey.

The Hawai‘i Department of Health Sanitation Branch has issued a Notice of Violation and Order against a Honolulu eatery for unlawfully removing a yellow “Conditional Pass” placard from their facility.

Maui’s Kurt Suzuki is headed to the World Series for the first time in his 13-year major league career.

Imua Family Services hosts their Halloween Edition of Battle of the Bosses on Monday, Oct. 28 at Mulligan’s on the Blue in Wailea from 6 to 10 p.m.

“Increased moisture along a weak frontal boundary combined with instability aloft will greatly enhance the chance for heavy rainfall, thunderstorms and flash flooding,” during the flood watch period.

Beginning this Sunday, the Maui Ocean Center will host its first-ever Wai. Kai Week, a celebration of wai (freshwater and kai (saltwater) that will include a series of informational events and activities for the whole family. 

A community event is encouraging Mauiʻs men to take action against domestic violence. 

Hoola Na Pua, a nonprofit working to combat sex trafficking in Hawaiʻi, will be hosting a free symposium on Maui next month. 

The two sites, in Maka’alae and Mapulehu, are among the commission’s list of top five sites across the islands nominated for funding of $6.4 million in total.

The site of the old Hilo Memorial Hospital will serve people once again, thanks to $2.5 million in ʻOhana Zone funds from the state.

Jollibee, a popular fast-food chain in the Philippines, will be opening a restaurant at the Maui Marketplace in Kahului.

Students at Lihikai Elementary School are speaking up to encourage safe driving. 

The piece, led by Small Town * Big Art grantee Emmanuel Jarus, was inspired by this ʻōlelo noʻeau: “ʻIke Aku, ʻike mai, Kōkua aku, kōkua mai, Pēlā ka nohona ʻohana.”

Applications are now open for the Josh and Souk Jerman Foundation Scholarship. 

Jury selection began today for Kumulipo Sylva, the man standing trial for the near decapitation of Eduardo Alejandro “Alex” Cerezo with a machete at a mall bathroom on Maui last year.