Maui News

The Restoring Resilient Reefs Act authorizes five years of directed federal funding and technical assistance to states for the restoration and management of coral reef ecosystems.

On the heels of Erick, tropical cyclone Flossie will approach the islands from the east over the rest of the weekend into early next week

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The Maui Fire Department is warning the public about a telephone scam that is currently being attempted in Maui County. The scam comes amid a large wildfire that has burned 5,300 acres below Pukalani since it first started Thursday afternoon.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation is informing the public of preparations it is taking in advance of possible weather impacts as Tropical Storm Erick passes south of the state and Tropical Storm Flossie approaches

This is a list of closures, cancellations and notices issued as businesses, groups and facilities deal with the inclement weather and approaching storms.  This list is updated regularly.

The center of Erick will pass by around 175 miles south of the Big Island tonight, with Tropical-storm-force winds extending outward up to 105 miles from the center, according to the Central Pacific Hurricane Center.

Federal Prosecutors charged Maui resident George Alexis Theros, 76, with “engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place,” after he allegedly sexually abused a 14-year-old girl from Thailand and abandoned her in Panama when he was caught.

“I thought he was coming to kill me,” Kupihea said. “He’s coming to finish the job.”

The Maui Fire Department is responding to a brush fire adjacent to Haleakala Highway below Pukalani. The fire is at least five acres and growing rapidly due to strong winds.

Q: Does the County have a program that accepts scrap vehicles for free? Do people have to cut the vehicles up into little pieces before Hammerhead Metals Recycling will accept them?

Maui County officials continue to prepare for possible heavy weather impacts from tropical cyclones Erick and Flossie and are reminding residents and visitors to prepare their households.

All lanes and all directions of Hāna Highway will be closed on weeknights from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. between Aug. 12 and 30, 2019. No closures will occur on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday nights.

The location of the infected tree is extremely remote and it is considered highly unlikely to have been spread by people. Rapid ʻŌhiʻa Death has now been detected on Hawai‘i Island, Maui, Kaua‘i and O‘ahu since the fungal disease was first discovered in 2014.

On the forecast track, the center of Erick will pass within about 200 miles south of the Big Island of Hawaiʻi later today and tonight.

The Hawaiʻi Air National Guard is flying over four F-22 Raptors from Oʻahu to Kahului Airport on Maui between Aug. 1 and 3, 2019.

Photographs of two oceanic whitetip sharks, lacking fins, along with photographs of a dead, three-and-a-half-foot long whitetip reef shark is raising concern among marine biologists on Hawai‘i Island.

If you or anyone you know has pictures of this object please send to newsdesk@mauinow.com and we will forward to the FAA for review. Mahalo. 

Among the most vocal celebrities against the TMT project at Maunakea, Jason Momoa arrived at the demonstration site just before noon today.  Today marks the 176th anniversary of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea the day in 1843 that sovereignty was restored to the Hawaiian Kingdom after a brief British occupation.

Maui police released video surveillance of a missing woman who they say checked out of a resort in Kīhei on July 21, 2019.