Maui News

The public is invited to a meeting to learn about actions proposed in the recently released Kīpahulu Comprehensive Plan and Environmental Assessment.  The meeting will take place on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, 4:30 to 6 p.m. in the Kīpahulu District Visitor Center.

Heavy rain has resulted in stormwater runoff entering into coastal waters.

Congress passes measures authored by Hawaiʻi State Senator Mazie K. Hirono in the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018 that will support Hawaiʻi’s disaster relief efforts, aviation workforce, and rural air service. 

A presidential-style debate between Maui County mayoral candidates Elle Cochran and Mike Victorino will be held Oct. 30 at the new King Kekaulike High School Performing Arts Center.

The newly organized Maui Police Foundation will celebrate its launch with a community fundraiser at Café O’ Lei at the Dunes in Kahului on Wednesday, Nov. 14, from 5 to 8 p.m.

AARP Hawai‘i is recruiting volunteers to help “one hammer and nail at a time” to build affordable homes at the Habitat for Humanity Kahoma building site in Lahaina.

Today, the mayor transmitted a request to the Maui County Council in order to purchase 8,764 acres of land and easements owned by Wailuku Water Company.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued an update saying that based on all available data, a destructive Pacific-Wide tsunami is not expected and there is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi.

The repairs have resulted in the temporary closure of Front Street from Baker Street to Kenui Street from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. today.

OHA has invested $1.5 million in Hawaiian Community Assets housing programs since 2011 and has helped 338 Native Hawaiian households obtain rentals, purchase homes and prevent foreclosures.

The Maui briefing will take place on Monday, Oct. 15, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Maui County Emergency Operations Center in the basement level of the County Building.

Upon completion of the Program these RNs would be prepared to provide care to medically complex patients and those requiring short-term rehabilitative care at Hale Makua.

Oct. 10 is the “Imagine a Day Without Water” day, which the Value of Water campaign launched as an effort to bring attention to the importance of freshwater.

My 37-year stint with the U.S. Geological Survey—16 years at the Cascades Volcano Observatory (CVO) and 21 at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory (HVO)—ends this month.

The letter comes after Hilo resident and small business owner Laycie Tobosa endured an 18-week delay while trying to renew her county issued driver’s license.  The ACLU alleges that the delay was “simply because she is a practicing Muslim.”

The Kāʻanapali Beach Hotel on Maui was named the No. 1 Top Hotel in Hawaiʻi by readers of Condé Nast Traveler in the publication’s 31st annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

Due to mechanical problems, a refuse route in the Kula area today is being rescheduled to Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs will host orientation sessions on Maui, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi over the next two weeks for its new $500,000 pilot grants program, which will offer smaller, one-year funding awards for projects that benefit the Native Hawaiian community.

Hawaiian Airlines suspends its thrice-weekly nonstop service this week between Honolulu’s Daniel K Inouye International Airport and Beijing Capital International Airport.

Maui fire crews responded to a house fire in the Waiehu Heights area of Wailuku overnight.