Maui News

The cabins at Waiʻānapanapa State Park will close for approximately a year beginning today as a $2.3 million cabin renovation and wastewater treatment project gets underway.

Courtney Galarita, Jamie Gomes and Sarina Angel were each nominated by their respective clubs as finalists for the 2015 Boys and Girls Club Youth of the Year award.

An estimated 11,500 gallons of wastewater overflowed at the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation Facility before being contained on Tuesday, March 31, 2015.

The non-profit Maui Family Support Services will be the recipient of ʻOhana Fuels “Fuel Up, Do Good” program for the next three months.

The Hōlua cabin and campground area at Haleakalā National Park will close for invasive ant control on Thursday and Friday, April 9 and 10, 2015.

University officials say the funds will be used to support the program’s mission to provide scholarships and services to non-traditional native Hawaiian students who aspire to attain a college degree throughout the US and Hawaiʻi.

According to the newly formed Save Our Parade – Save Our Parking Lot group, a community meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 7, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Makawao Elementary School Cafeteria to discuss the future of an Upcountry tradition–this year’s 50th Annual Makawao Paniolo Parade.

The NerdWallet study showed that drivers on Maui who are arrested for a DUI are likely to pay a minimum “true cost” totaling $2,961.25 as a result of the offense. The maximum high-end “true cost” on Maui was estimated at $4,131.25.

Parties in the case were notified that the court would decide on motions in the case without a hearing, a move that was met with disappointment by members of the SHAKA Movement and five Maui residents–Dr. Lorrin Pang, Mark Sheehan, Leiʻohu Ryder, Bonnie Marsh and Alika Atay–who introduced advocated for passage of the initiative.

Winds were named as the cause of two separate power outages affecting an estimated 2,100 customers in Wailuku on Monday afternoon, a Maui Electric spokesperson said.

Hawaiʻi outbid eight other cities to host the World Conservation Congress in 2016, according to Lieutenant Governor Shan Tsutsui. The item was among several highlights that Lt. Gov. Tsutsui included in a newsletter which detailed administrative updates on education, the environment and a recent trade mission to the Philippines.

The Hawaiʻi Meth Project celebrates the one-year anniversary if its “Not Even Once” mural project by inviting middle and intermediate schools to apply for their own campus mural installations.

The event will serve as host to 500+ students and educators from 30 intermediate and high schools across the state, who will get first-hand exposure to advanced technologies, new software training and real world challenges.

The Hawai`i Association for College Admission Counseling sponsors the third annual Maui College Fair on Monday, April 13, 2015 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Maui High B-Building and School Gym.

The County of Maui today announced the official launch of a new app which will enable residents to participate in community-based reporting of non-emergency issues from their cell phones and mobile devices.

The year-round supplementary educational enrichment program is specifically for students entering grades 9 through 12 in Fall 2015, and who are not currently enrolled full-time at a Kamehameha School campus.

The US Coast Guard is seeking the public’s help in identifying the owner of a kayak found floating adrift approximately 12 miles southwest of Lāʻau Point, Molokaʻi on Sunday, March 29, 2015.

The count was the final of three conducted for the year during peak whale season. The Sanctuary Ocean Count is held each year on the last Saturday of January, February, and March.

A 35-year-old Maui woman was flown by medevac to the Maui Memorial Medical Center on Saturday, March 28, after falling 15 feet from a cliff just north of Kapalua Bay.

The moped operator was attempting to make a left hand turn from a business onto Hanakai Street at around 12:30 p.m. when he collided with a 2008 Toyota Tacoma traveling south on the roadway.