Maui News

The Haʻikū Community Association will host a meeting on Thursday, Aug. 20 to gather input and provide updates on: the Kalakupua Playground at Giggle Hill reopening; the County’s plans to purchase more than 260 acres of former pineapple land along the scenic Hamakualoa coastline; and a storm season preparedness presentation by MECO.

The Department of Water Supply today announced that repairs to waterline breaks in North Kīhei and Haʻikū were repaired and service restored in both areas.

Hilda is now a Category 2 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph. The system is now expected to track directly for the Big Island as a…

Here on Maui, local affiliate, Mālama Maui Nui conducted beach cleanups and educational events. The group is now gearing up for ‘Get the Drift and Bag It’, the next cleanup campaign that focuses on protecting oceans, waterways, and marine wildlife from trash and debris as part of the International Coastal Cleanup on September 19, 2015.

A 62-year-old man from Kawela, Molokaʻi was pulled from waters near Kamalō Wharf after a witness reported the man’s boat drifting downwind without an operator aboard.

Maui firefighters battled two small brush fires along Baldwin Avenue in Pāʻia early Friday morning. The fires were located just mauka of the Pāʻia Gym, on the Kahului side of Baldwin Avenue.

A Maui inmate, serving time for arson, has died at a Correctional Center in Arizona. Jonathan Namauleg, of Maui, was serving three years for third degree arson.

Yuki Lei Sugimura, a longtime Kula resident and member of the Kula Community Association, has announced her candidacy for the Maui County Council Upcountry residency seat (Pukalani, Kula, ‘Ulupalakua).

Maui police responded to 28 burglaries, 36 vehicle break-ins and 10 vehicle thefts in Maui County over the seven-day period between Sunday, July 26, and Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015.

A gathering of friends, family and well-wishers welcomed Trucker Dukes back home to Maui on Thursday, Aug. 6. The 2-year-old has spent the last nine months at Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children on O‘ahu, and in New York City for cancer treatments.

Police, who have yet to release the suspects name, say the 39-year-old man with no local address, was shot multiple times by officers. During an initial investigation police recovered over 50 shell casings, nine of them from the perpetrator. Police say the man sustained an estimated 11 gun shot wounds that were located on various parts of his body from his legs to the top of his torso.

Maui police have since identified the deceased man as a 39-year old African American male with no local address, but have not released his name pending notification of next of kin.

Groundbreaking will take place in September 2015, with the remaining $27 million in initial funds to be used after groundwork has been laid. “I’m really excited that this will be the first Net Zero high school in the entire state,” said Rep. Ing. “It sets an example for what high schools should look like in the future. This is not your grandma’s high school,” he said.

The Upcountry Dog Park located behind the Maui County Recycling Center in Makawao will open to the public in December, county officials said.

The Maui group Stop Cane Burning has filed a new motion in Second Circuit Court seeking injunctive relief to invalidate the 2015 Burn Permit issued to Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company and ban parent company A&B from conducting agricultural burning operations on Maui.

Guillermo or its remnant center is expected to pass about 60 miles north of Maui late today, 20 miles north of Oʻahu tonight, and near Kauaʻi on Friday morning.

The 29-year-old freelance photographer from Lahaina who captures images for her Wicked Wahine Photography business, entered the contest in the hopes of winning a trip to New York.

Police say he removed a small caliber handgun and fired at the officers. Officers returned fire, striking the male who sustained injuries and later died at the scene.

About 100 Maui bicyclists experienced the joy of riding on the new Airport Access Road—before cars were allowed on it—during a public ride organized by Maui Bicycling League, with support from the Hawaii Department of Transportation and the County of Maui.

The Coast Guard is searching for the user of a dive float reported adrift on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2015, in the ʻAuʻAu Channel between Lānaʻi and Maui.