Maui News

Once the renovation and transition is complete in early 2015, the Daniel K. Inouye Allied Health Center will serve UHMC students and the community with 18 operatories and 3 radiology chairs including state-of-the-art digital imaging systems.

Forecasters with the National Weather Service say a band of heavy rain which affected Kauaʻi and Oʻahu during morning and mid-day hours has since weakened, with only scattered showers remaining east of Oʻahu and around Maui County.

A message states that the owner is complying with the order, “to respond to numerous illegal activities being conducted on the property and move forward to proceed with the eviction of all trespassers and removal of illegal structures and debris.”

Local retailer, Maui Thing, is hosting a holiday charity drive, with full proceeds going to A Keiki’s Dream – Sick Children Fund to directly help three island keiki.

There were no immediate advisories issued following a 2.9 preliminary magnitude earthquake reported at 10:02 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 13, 2013, near Volcano on Hawaiʻi Island.

A manpower shortage resulted in missed trash service in some areas of Haʻikū on Friday, Dec. 13, county officials from the Solid Waste Division announced.

The agency currently provides subsidized transportation services to the elderly, low-income, individuals with disabilities, and disadvantaged youth in Maui County.

The Bishop Museum Planetarium notes that the meteor shower is a rarity because it is caused by debris from an asteroid (3200 Phaethon), rather than a comet.

A 59-year-old man is dead after an apparent fall in the remote East Maui area of Kīpahulu. Maui police have since identified the man as 59-year-old Philip Chang of Kaupō.

More than 222,000 pounds of plastic drip line were recycled from Monsanto Hawaiʻi’s Maui farm, according to a company announcement issued today.

A Pāʻia man indicted earlier this year for the alleged sex assault of a minor under the age of 14 was located in Thailand and extradited back to Maui today, where he is being held without bail.

Maui Electric Company will be using helicopters to conduct routine power line inspections throughout the island on Tuesday, Dec. 17.

The agency responded by launching two MH-65 Dolphin helicopters and one HC-130 Hercules airplane from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point on Oʻahu; Cutters Ahi and Galveston Island, home-ported in Honolulu; and two 45-foot Response-Boat Medium crews from Station Maui.

A water shutdown is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, Dec. 17, in Kahului as contractors work to extend a waterline on Kāne Street.

The cause of a small plane crash off of Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi Wednesday afternoon will be investigated by both the Federal Aviation Administration and National Transportation Safety Board personnel.

All nine individuals are now accounted for, with one individual suffering fatal injuries in a plane crash off of Kalaupapa, Molokaʻi on Wednesday afternoon.

In an exclusive interview this week, Mayor Arakawa said it’s difficult to create rules and regulations when shark movement and how they react to people has varied.

The University of Hawai’i is offering a series of scholarship workshops for Native Hawaiians interested in pursuing a college education.

Road improvements and related road closures are scheduled to start on Monday, Dec. 16, in the remote Kahakuloa area on Maui, and continue through April 30, 2014, county officials announced.

Gabbard highlighted the critical need for affordable air travel in the state saying there is no interisland railway or highway system, making air travel an “essential lifeline for conducting business, receiving health care, and visiting with family and friends.”