Maui News

Heavy rains associated with Madeline may reach Hawaii County on Wednesday, and may impact other Hawaiian Islands later Wednesday into Friday.

As Maui Electric employees prepare for potential impacts from approaching Hurricanes Madeline and Lester, Maui Electric wants to remind customers that electricity can be dangerous and electrical safety should never be taken for granted, especially during an emergency situation.

Maui residents are urged to begin making preparations for dangerous surf, high winds and heavy rain as Hurricane Madeline continues to make its way toward the Hawaiian Islands.

The University of Hawai’i Maui College has been awarded two significant federal grants totaling $3.7 million over the next five years.

Maui Electric and Kā‘anapali Golf Courses will be postponing the 8th Annual Keiki Tilapia Fishing Tournament scheduled on Sunday, September 4, due to approaching storms Hurricane Madeline and Hurricane Lester.

Kaiser Permanente has stated that it will not be able to transition to take over operations of the Maui Region until July 1, 2017.

The National Weather Service in Honolulu has issued a Hurricane Watch for Hawai‘i Island for Hurricane Madeline, which is approaching the state from the east.

When asked her certainty that the person she saw was Capobianco, Taylor said, “Sure enough that I am here in court that I’m saying that I saw him in Hāna in a car that I did not recognize.”

The Maui ceremony will feature the planting of a Kamani tree, symbolic of Senator Inouye’s strong and long-lasting commitment to the people of Maui County.

Maui Weekly Obituary Notices: Week of Aug. 28, 2016

Firefighters responded to the Commando Trail hike in Kailua after a male and female, both 24 year-old residents’ from Lahaina, were reported overdue from a hike Friday.

Wailea firefighters responded to Kamaole Beach Park I to assist ocean safety lifeguards with an unresponsive female pulled from the water at 12:03 p.m. on Friday, August 26, 2016.

Maui Civil Defense Agency and Maui Department of Fire and Public Safety will host Community Emergency Response Team or CERT training in Pukalani in September.

Haleakalā celebrated the Centennial of the National Park Service with activities, special programs, cultural demonstrations, and a brief ceremony on Aug. 25.

Two mariners who were stranded on an uninhabited Pacific island in Chuuk State, Federated States of Micronesia, are safe, Friday, after writing “SOS” in the sand.

In an untimely appearance, a humpback whale was spotted in Maui waters off the coast of Lahaina on Thursday afternoon, Aug. 25, 2016, ahead of the traditional whale season in Hawaiian waters.

A former co-worker of Steven Capobianco testified on Wednesday that she saw the defendant driving a different 4Runner in Hāna the night Charli Scott went missing.

Today’s action creates the largest protected area in the world, and expands the size of the original Papahānaumokuākea monument more than four fold.

Changing fisher behaviors over the last three years has allowed officers with the North Maui Community Fisheries Enforcement Unit to spend less time writing citations and more time on education and outreach.

Commercial swim-with-dolphin programs would lose their main draw if a ban is passed that seeks to prohibit approaching Hawaiian spinner dolphins within 50 yards