Maui News

Starting Aug. 1, department officials say the Central Maui Landfill will have reduced hours from 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday to Saturday. Rural landfills in Hāna, Molokaʻi and Lānaʻi will have new hours of service from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday.

Coast Guard officials say the owner saw the local news reporting the discovery of the kayak, and said that the wind possibly carried it away from his sailing vessel moored at Māla Wharf in West Maui.

Maui firefighters are responding to a fire reported at the HFM construction site in the industrial lot next to the Foodland grocery store on Kane Street in Kahului.

The County Charter requires a two-thirds vote by the council to override the mayor’s line-item vetoes. The deadline to act is June 26 — that’s 10 days after the budget bill was returned, Baisa said.

Firefighters battled a fast moving unscheduled cane fire in Pāʻia on Wednesday afternoon that burned one acre of cane, and resulted in monetary losses estimated at $5,000, fire officials said.

The US Department of the Interior today announced a first step to consider reestablishing a government-to-government relationship between the United States and the native Hawaiian community. Public meetings in Maui County run from June 27 through July 8.

The infestation was confirmed in late May, and covered an area about 400 square feet. The invasive species was first detected on Maui in late December of 2013 on hāpuʻu logs found in a retail store.

Maui mayoral candidate Neldon Mamuad’s nomination papers are invalid according to a determination issued today by Maui County Clerk Danny Mateo.

All residents and merchants are invited to the meeting in which findings of a commissioned study on the future of Pāʻia Town will be discussed.

A Molokaʻi man has since died of injuries suffered in a single-vehicle collision reported in the Mauna Loa area of Molokaʻi last month. Maui police have since identified the man as Harry Shimizu, 86, of Molokaʻi.

A blessing marks the official return of stewardship at the Palauea Cultural Preserve site, which is located between Kīhei and Mākena along the Old Mākena Road.

The promotions include: Oscar Martin Del Campo, Frank Abreu, Mark Hada, Lee Ann Galario-Guzman, Edith Quintero, Mike Crowe, and Michael McCutcheon. All seven promotions took effect on Monday, June 16, 2014.

UPDATE: A Maui woman and her two young children are safe after they were reported missing on Tuesday. Hawaiʻi Island police say Ries and her children were located unharmed in Kalapana at 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday, June 17, 2014.

A family of six from Bellevue, Illinois was able to walk away from the scene of a hard helicopter landing in Waiheʻe on Maui on Tuesday morning, fire officials said.

The ex-boyfriend of a missing pregnant Maui woman was charged with possession of a deadly weapon and was also charged with violating terms of his release on bail.

Mayor Arakawa claims the county’s actual revenues “would not have been sufficient to fund the Council-appropriated projects” that he vetoed and “would have created a budget shortfall.”

The 51-year-old Wailuku man operating of the moped sustained “critical life-threatening” injuries and was transported to the Maui Memorial Medical Center for further treatment.

The ex-boyfriend of a missing pregnant Maui woman was arrested again, this time on suspicion of terroristic threatening. Maui police say Steven Capobianco was arrested, but had not been charged as of Monday afternoon.

A visitor died after he was pulled from waters fronting Kapalua Bay in West Maui over the weekend. Maui police have since identified the man as Charles Hoover, 76, of High Point, North Carolina.

The county Department of Housing and Human Concerns submitted a Final Environmental Assessment for the 64-unit Kulamalu affordable housing project in Pukalani.