Maui News

The Wailea fire has burned 200 acres and is now 60% contained. Wind that had fanned the fast-moving flames died around 2 a.m.

Conservation partners were able to provide a new home, safe from invasive predators,  for a total of 39 endangered seabird chicks, according to the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR). Twenty of the birds were the endangered Uaʻu, or Hawaiian Petrel, and 19 of them were the threatened ʻAʻo, or Newell’s Shearwater. The birds […]

Impersonators claiming to be deputy sheriffs are calling Hawaiʻi residents saying they have warrants and if they don’t pay, Sheriffs will be sent to arrest them

Survey results will be used to evaluate current housing programs and future policy making. Maui County residents may be contacted by phone as early as Jan. 7.

DOCARE officers recovered more than 200 pounds of āholehole and detained two men who were allegedly observed tending to an illegal net in windward O‘ahu.

Former Hawai‘i Lieutenant Governor Shan Tsutsui will join Mahi Pono, LLC, as its Senior Vice President of Operations and will lead the farming venture on Maui.

For 19 years, every Monday through Friday, Sets Tasaka, 80, has taken the bus from his home in Wailuku, Maui, to Hale Makua’s Adult Day Health Center.

Former State Sen. Jill N. Tokuda has been named as the new executive director of the Nisei Veterans Memorial Center.

Musician Willie K, born Willie Kahaialiʻi of Lahaina, collapsed Saturday night, Jan. 5, 2019 while on stage at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center for his Willie K and Friends Bluesfest.

Sen. Mazie K. Hirono announced that she will donate the pay she receives during the partial government shutdown to food banks in all four counties across Hawaiʻi. “More than 2,500 federal workers in Hawaiʻi are either furloughed or working without pay during the holidays because Donald Trump shut down the government,” Sen. Hirono said. “As […]

Visitors to the island of Maui spent a total of $364.6 million in November, according to preliminary statistics from the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority.

Reps. Tulsi Gabbard and Andy Barrʻs bipartisan legislation to ensure timely reimbursement for veterans who were underpaid or faced delays in their Forever GI bill housing benefits recently passed the US senate. The Forever GI Bill Housing Payment Fulfillment Act would require the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to assess how many veterans were impacted, […]

Currently, the fire is approximately 75 acres and considered 80% contained. There are no evacuations in effect as no structures are threatened at this time.

Two recently retired Maui Police Officers were sworn today in as the newest Reserve Officers, bringing the total up to four officers in the program.

Diagnostic Laboratory Services: Year-end workforce drug tests show marijuana up and amphetamines down; but all categories showed increases in the fourth quarter

The DLNR Division of Boating and Ocean Recreation has closed the public loading dock at the Maunalua Bay boat ramp in east O‘ahu.

Hawaiʻi was recently named the No. 2 state overall in the United States for raising children, according to SafeHome.org’s study Best States To Raise Children.

Sen. Hirono called the action “arbitrary” and said many are long-term US residents from Southeast Asia, including those who fled war and genocide.

College students from Hawaiʻi have an opportunity to gain summer work experience on Hawaiʻi Island and Maui for an 8-week program from June 16 to Aug. 16, 2019.

Advocates say the bill was drafted to hold the VA accountable for its “failure to fully comply” with reimbursement rates set by the Forever GI Bill.