Maui News

Luis P. Salaveria has been selected to be the next University of Hawaiʻi vice president for budget and finance and chief financial officer.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation has announced the launch of its Priority Multimodal Network, a statewide initiative identifying 113 projects designed to improve pedestrian, bicycle and transit access across the state highway system.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Federal Highway Administration Central Federal Lands Highway Division, will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025, to discuss planned improvements to six historic bridges along Hāna Highway (Route 360) between Huelo and Hāna town in East Maui.

American Savings Bank has received national recognition from the American Bankers Association (ABA) Foundation for its Hui Kapili Accelerator, earning a 2025 ABA Foundation Community Commitment Award in the Community and Economic Development category.

HouseMart Ben Franklin Crafts will host the annual Ben Franklin Winter Craft Fair on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Macy’s parking structure at Queen Kaʻahumanu Center in Kahului.

The Haʻikū Community Association has announced it will host its last meeting of 2025 on Wednesday, Nov. 12, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Haʻikū Community Center.

The Senate Committee on Ways and Means received an update from the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity on efforts to bolster Hawaiʻi’s biosecurity network to protect local agriculture, people and natural resources from pests and invasive species.

The Maui Fire Department will conduct wildland live fire training on Nov. 10, 12, 18 and 19, as part of our 42nd Recruit Class. This training will be conducted in Waikapū, across from the Maui Tropical Plantation.

The Rotary Satellite Club of Kīhei-Wailea will host Nikki Russell, chief executive officer of the Maui Humane Society, as its featured speaker on Tuesday, Nov. 11, from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Island Health, 2439 S. Kīhei Road.

Hawaiʻi State Federal Credit Union announced that it will donate $50,000 to support local food banks and pantries as families across the state face growing food insecurity caused by the ongoing federal government shutdown and the reduction of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

US Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaiʻi, has joined Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and several colleagues to introduce legislation that would prohibit the federal government from conducting layoffs during a government shutdown.

Mayor Richard T. Bissen, Jr. announced today, Nov. 8, 2025, that he will seek re-election to continue serving the people of Maui County, emphasizing steadfast leadership, community collaboration, and long-term resilience as the foundation of his 2026 campaign.

After 17 days and more than 1,600 nautical miles of open-ocean voyaging, traditional double-hulled voyaging canoes Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia made safe landfall Friday morning at Aotearoa’s Bay of Islands. The arrival marks the successful completion of Leg 15 of the Moananuiākea Voyage, a multi-year circumnavigation of the Pacific.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees approved a plan to expend up to $6.1 million in OHA emergency assistance funding to Native Hawaiian beneficiaries impacted by the federal government shutdown.

Gov. Josh Green and the Hawaiʻi Department of Human Services have announced that SNAP recipients should be able to spend the additional $250 in relief funds beginning Nov. 10, four full days earlier than anticipated. Recipients should be able to see the extra $250 in their accounts now, as a pending benefit.

The US Department of Transportation confirmed that Daniel K. Inouye Honolulu International Airport is among the 40 US airports that must reduce air traffic. The reductions will occur in phases, with a 4% reduction beginning today (Friday, Nov. 7), an 8% reduction by Thursday, Nov. 13 and the required 10% reduction by Friday, Nov. 14. 

The County of Kaua‘i and University of Hawai‘i Sea Grant College Program, also know as Hawai‘i Sea Grant, have developed a framework aimed at helping Kauaʻi’s communities prepare more effectively and better support recovery following natural disasters.

On Maui, a Garden Expo and Tree Giveaway takes place at Maui Nui Botanical Garden on Saturday, Nov. 8 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The reach of the Maui Relief TANF Program, which assists residents directly impacted by the 2023 wildfires, has expanded to include households without dependent children and noncitizens following additional funding from the State of Hawaiʻi. The program run by Maui Economic Opportunity in partnership with the state Department of Human Services began operating in the […]

A new study using data from the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea serves up the closest-ever view of a planet-forming disk around young star HD 34282 using the SPAM survey — The Search for Protoplanets with Aperture Masking, affectionately referred to as SPAM.