Maui News

Tonight, there are a total of 29 performances, with Maui hālau scheduled to appear throughout the lineup in the following order: (1) Pukalani Hula Hale – Kumu Hiʻilei Maxwell-Juan – Pukalani & Kahului, Maui; (2) Hālau o Ka Hanu Lehua – Kumu Kamaka Kukona – Waikapū, Maui; (4) Moana’s Hula Hālau – Kumu Raquel Dudoit – Kaunakakai, Molokaʻi; (11) Hālau Kekuaokalāʻauʻalaʻiliahi – Kumu Haunani & ʻIliahi Paredes – Wailuku, Maui; (17) Hālau Kekuaokalāʻauʻalaʻiliahi – Kumu Haunani & ʻIliahi Paredes – Wailuku, Maui (Kāne); and (27) Hālau Nā Lei Kaumaka O Uka – Kumu Nāpua Greig – Kula, Maui.

The Maui Police Department will be participating in the national “U Drive. U Text. U Pay” campaign. Additional enforcement of Hawaii’s Mobile Electronic Device Law is planned starting on April 8th and continuing until April 13th.

UPDATE: 9:27 a.m. 4/1/16, The accident has since been cleared. Significant delays can be expected as traffic resumes its normal flow. Some motorists report that they were sitting in traffic for about 45 minutes before getting through.

The agencies measured the quake at a depth of about 12.2 miles and say it was located 43 miles NNE of Honoka’a on Hawaiʻi Island; 58 mi east of Hāna, Maui; and and 81 miles E of Kīhei on Maui.

March 29, 2016 was the official day that the Department of Defense has designated to recognize the 50th anniversary of America’s involvement in the Vietnam War.

Officials with DLNR tell Maui Now that it was a minor incident involving an individual in a commercial tour group.

A Maui woman was nominated by the Maui Humane Society for recognition in a national shelter heroes contest.

The impersonator claims a DWS account has an outstanding balance and states that if the customer does not pay, their water supply will be shut off.

Due to a pump failure, residents and businesses in the Hāna and Koali areas of East Maui are experiencing an interruption in water service.

Maui fire crews have been dispatched to a report of a brush fire near Mile 20 of the Hāna Highway in West Wailua Iki, just past Keʻanae going to Hāna.

April 1, 2016, marks the 70th anniversary of a 1946 tsunami that claimed 159 lives and caused widespread damage in Hawaiʻi following an undersea earthquake off Alaska.

The humpback whale season continues in Hawaiʻi with active pods performing some interesting behavior, including a “tail sail” that caught the attention of Sanctuary scientists and breathtaking breaches captured by local photographers here on Maui.

Born and raised on the island of Maui, Lily has been a songbird as long as she can remember. Now 21, Rolling Stone named Lily as one of the, “10 New Country Artists You Need to Know.”

It is the first company on Maui and one of only seven in the Hawaiian Islands to receive this prestigious designation.

A Makawao man suffered fatal injuries in a motorcycle crash on the Haleakalā Highway on Wednesday morning, March 30, 2016.

The Maui County District Health Office and the County of Maui will be holding two community meetings regarding imported cases of mosquito-borne illness suspected to be the Zika virus.

Officials with the US Geological Survey’s Hawaiian Volcanoes Observatory tell Maui Now that the cause of Monday’s 3.6 earthquake on Maui was likely due to flexure of the oceanic crust beneath the islands.

State officials say the restriction on soil may affect those traveling to the Merrie Monarch Festival and purchasing potted plants on Hawaiʻi Island.

Maui Now has obtained the list of names of those arrested on Maui as part of Operation Violence Reduction 12, a six-week effort that resulted in the arrests of 33 individuals on Maui and 162 across the state.

Police say reports indicated that the man attempted to forcibly enter one of the facilities.