Maui News

Saltchuk, a family owned company and the parent company of Aloha Air Cargo, Hawaiʻi Petroleum, ʻOhana Fuels, Minit Stop, Young Brothers, and Foss Hawaiʻi has pledged $10,000 to Book Trust in support of Maui elementary school students.

The Maui Department of Finance will close all of its offices on Friday, Dec. 16, 2016 to conduct staff training.

Hawaiʻi will receive $3.1 million to fight invasive species like the coconut rhinoceros beetle, coffee berry borer, Rapid ʻŌhia Death, and fruit flies.

Two visitors were airlifted from the area known as the “Commando Trail” in Kailua on Monday morning after becoming stranded by high stream water on Sunday night.

The Maui Department of Water Supply is working to resolve pumping issues in Wakiu, Hāna. As a result, consumers in the following areas may be affected with low pressure and are asked to conserve water:

Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company commemorates its final sugar harvest today following months of transition work.

The Coast Guard Station Maui partnered with the Salvation Army to deliver toys to the children of Molokaʻi on Friday, Dec. 9, 2016.

We received reports of flooding near the Kīhei Bay Vista property as well as the wetland area just south of the old Maui Lu property in North Kīhei.

Authorities have confirmed that the emergency siren in Kīhei is malfunctioning. There is NO emergency at this time.

Weather radar indicates that the heaviest rain has pushed offshore. Therefore the Flash Flood Warning will be allowed to expire at 1030 PM. Light to occasional moderate rainfall continues however, and, minor flooding of low lying and poor drainage areas may continue for the next hour or two.

The Honoapiʻilani Highway in West Maui is closed between North Kīhei junction in Māʻalaea to Papalaua Wayside Park in Lahaina due to flooding across the roadway.

May they rest in peace. Maui Obituaries for the week of Dec. 11, 2016 Brought to you in part by Ballard Family Mortuaries

Maui police responded to 23 burglaries, 32 vehicle thefts and 32 vehicle break-ins in Maui County over a seven day period between Nov. 27 and Dec. 3, 2016.

The jury in the ongoing State v Capobianco murder trail continues to deliberate and is expected to deliberate well into the coming week, sources tell Maui Now.

Police on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2016, recovered approximately six pounds of suspected crystal methamphetamine from a package intended for the Kona side of Hawaiʻi Island.

The water in the ʻUalapuʻe system (on Molokaʻi) continues to be safe to drink, because it has been disinfected, and no E. coli bacteria have been found in the distribution system. Updates will be provided as soon as they become available.

Roof damage and heavy rains have forced the closure of Alfred “Flako” Boteilho Sr. Gymnasium in Pāʻia for the weekend.

Maui fire officials say a house cat is believed to have knocked over an oil lamp in the bathroom of a two-story home on Akahai Place in Haʻikū.

East Maui water rights will be one of the issues up for discussion at tomorrow’s Board of Land and Natural Resources meeting, scheduled to start at 9 a.m. at the Kalanimoku Building in Honolulu.

Twenty-two individuals were arrested today on Oʻahu and in California, after being named in six indictments returned by a federal grand jury.