Maui News

Maui’s Steve Keahi, an airport firefighter with the state Department of Transportation, was honored today with the 2015 Employee of the Year award from Governor David Ige.

NOAA Fisheries hosts its 17th semi-annual Main Hawaiian Islands Monk Seal Count on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Hawaiian monk seals are considered among the world’s most endangered marine mammals, with the population down to around 1,100 and falling at 3% per year.

All missed pickups are expected to be completed tomorrow, on Saturday, Oct. 3, 2015. Affected areas include: Door of Faith Road; Hāna Highway into Kailua; East and West Lelehuna Place, ʻUlalena Loop, and all surrounding streets.

The 24-hour course is taught over four Saturdays, consisting of classroom instruction and field exercises. CERT is a training program that prepares members of the public to help themselves, their families, and their neighbors in the event of a disaster.

Maui police responded to 25 burglaries, 45 vehicle break-ins and 15 vehicle thefts in Maui County over the seven-day period between Sunday, Sept. 20, and Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015.

More than 200 candidates are vying for 40 delegate spots to serve on the Native Hawaiian constitutional convention or ‘Aha. This includes 15 candidates vying for three seats on Maui, and three candidates vying for a single seat to represent Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi.

The incident was reported at around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. Anyone with information regarding the ownership of the boat is asked to contact the Coast Guard Sector Honolulu Command Center at (808) 842-2600.

Isaac Imamura won the “Tilapa-Whoppa” award for catching the largest tilapia – 998 grams – during this year’s 7th Annual Keiki Tilapia Fishing Tournament 2015 hosted by Maui Electric and Kā‘anapali Golf Course.

Volunteers are invited to participate by learning how to identify coral bleaching and report their findings to the Eyes of the Reef Network this Saturday, Oct. 3, at 9 a.m. at Kahekili Beach Park in West Maui.

The arrests included: a 15-year-old from Makawao; and a 16-year-old and 13-year-old from Haʻikū.

Four juvenile males from the Varsity King Kekaulike High School football team were also identified as being involved in the theft.

The Hawaiʻi lawmakers were in Washington, DC to participate in discussions on how the states can address issues including raising the minimum wage, paid family leave and sick days for workers, expanding pre-Kindergarten education, college affordability, and reforming licensing laws to allow more people to get jobs.

37-year-old LeRoy Wright fled yesterday afternoon when a corrections officer with the MCCC went to his place of employment to check on him. Wright was serving time for first degree burglary and was tentatively approved for parole to begin on Oct. 14.

The governor plans to begin using electronic signatures and processing all documents electronically, starting Oct. 1, 2015.

The Second Circuit Court on Maui will be upgrading its security system configuration beginning on Friday, Oct. 9, 2015.

This year’s winners are: “Member of the Year,” Paula Hegele; “Family of the Year,” David Stoltzfus and family; “Friend of Agriculture,” Dr. Harold Keyser; and “Mike Lyons Award,” Saedene Ota.

An early morning fire at a Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar company repair shop in Puʻunēnē was brought under control and extinguished within a half an hour.

A metallic “mylar” balloon that drifted into power lines has been identified as the cause of a South Maui power surge that knocked out electricity to an estimated 6,000 customers shortly before noon on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015.

The Discovery Channel launches a new series in October highlighting the sport of kayak fishing, and the “rare breed” of sportsmen and women who “risk their lives to catch 100-plus pound fish” in the open ocean. Among them is Maui’s own, Jon Jon Tabon, the founder, captain and pro guide at Local Fishing Knowledge.

Maui police are investigating an alleged attack in which a woman was reportedly injured at the Rainbow Mall in Kīhei on Monday night, Sept. 28, 2015. Police say the woman was allegedly attacked and held against her will by a man she didn’t know.