Maui News

The funds will support the Hawaiʻi Emergency Management Agency. NOAA’s Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program provides funding to coastal states for preparedness activities such as inundation mapping, disaster planning, and tsunami education.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard today joined colleagues in introducing a bipartisan House Resolution marking the 15th Anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

This year’s recipients are Dean Omura from Lahainaluna High School, Jasmine Cabajar from Maui High School and Nohea Stoner from Hāna High and Elementary School.

A Maui Police Detective offered testimony describing a police sweep of Nuaailua where he discovered a jawbone fragment, body piercing and fingernails.

A Lahaina woman was treated for injuries sustained in a struggle with burglars who broke into her home on Monday night, Sept. 5, 2016 at around 9:53 p.m.

No one wants to get arrested. But it happens. So what do you do? Attorney David Sereno shares advice and explains the importance of knowing your rights.

Pointing out at least 10 consistencies, a Maui orthodontist confirmed that a jawbone found at Nuaʻailua during the search for Charli Scott, belonged to the missing woman.

Due to a manpower shortage, a refuse route in Lahaina was missed today, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016.

Witnesses say a vehicle crashed into the fence at Alpha Electric and flipped on its side, coming to rest on the sidewalk.

The Baby of the Year event is open to babies born on or between April 9, 2014 and Oct. 9, 2015. The entry deadline is Sept. 23, 2016, for the first 120 entrants

The parking lot at Kalama Park Tennis Courts in South Maui will be closed today, Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, for emergency repairs on an electrical pole.

The Maui Department of Water Supply begins work Monday on lateral waterlines on Makaʻala Drive in Waiehu Terrace. Work continues through the end of the year.

The meeting will provide information on the status of plans being considered for the Airport, and a presentation on passenger and aircraft forecasts to 2035.

Capobianco Murder Trial: Police then came across a jawbone, clumps of hair and a bra that had investigators shift their focus to a more refined search for evidence involving the disappearance of Charli Scott.

Scientists from Bishop Museum and NOAA have published a description of a new species of butterflyfish from deep reefs of the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

Due to a manpower shortage, a refuse route is down in the Lahaina area on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. At the same time, mechanical problems have affected refuse routes for the Haʻikū and Makawao areas as well.

Hui O Ka Wai Ola is the first community-based water quality monitoring program on Maui to measure for nutrients in coastal waters.

A community cleanup will be held at Hanakaʻōʻō (Canoe Beach), as part of the International Coastal Cleanup and “Get the Drift and Bag It,” on Sept. 10, 2016.

The major walkway along the coastline of Wai‘ānapanapa State Park in East Maui will be replaced beginning today, Sept. 6, 2016.

There is no tsunami threat to Hawaiʻi after a preliminary magnitude 4.1 earthquake reported at 4:26 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016 in the summit region of the Mauna Loa Volcano on Hawaiʻi Island, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center.