Maui News

Hawaii is one of two locations in the running to host the event–the other is Istanbul, Turkey–with a decision on venue to be announced in May of 2014. State officials project that as many as 8,000 delegates are expected to attend the 2016 meeting.

Site coordinators and volunteers are being sought for the 2014 Great American Cleanup that begins on March 1 and runs through June 30, 2014.

On the one month anniversary of her disappearance, the family of missing Moreira “Mo” Monsalve reflected upon the events of the past month, saying there are more questions than answers.

Friends and family of a missing pregnant Maui woman will meet this morning to resume a search, focusing on the Hāna Highway between Haʻikū and Keʻanae.

Yesterday, family and friends of Monsalve posted an update on their Facebook page saying Feb. 12 “marks a full month with little to go on…”

A search party of about 25 people departed from Haʻikū this morning bound for the Nāhiku area of East Maui as family members and friends look for 27-year-old Carly “Charli” Joann Scott who was last seen on Sunday night.

A Wailuku man is dead following a motor vehicle accident at Baldwin Beach Park in Pāʻia on Tuesday afternoon.

The long-awaited launch of Maui’s voyaging canoe, the Moʻokiha o Piʻilani will be delayed to mid-May, according to an announcement this week from Hui o Waʻa Kaulua, Maui’s Voyaging Society.

A search is planned this morning for a missing 27-year old Makawao woman who is five months pregnant.

Ten-year-old Satyavati Dasi-Lazar was last seen in ʻOpihikao, on a property that is heavily wooded with several known lava tubes or tunnels.

The Maui County Council’s Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee took up review today of nominees for various boards, committees and commission.

Maui police have identified a paraglider who suffered fatal injuries in an accident along Haleakalā Crater Road on Monday night as 34-year-old Paul J. Macdonald of Haʻikū.

The parking lot at War Memorial Gymnasium will be closed for several weeks beginning on Friday, Feb. 21, while resurfacing work takes place.

Maui police have issued a missing person crime bulletin seeking information on Carly Joann Scott, a 27-year-old Makawao woman who was last seen at around 8 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, at her sister’s home in Haʻikū.

The 28-hour course takes place on four Saturdays in March between the 1st and the 22nd. Skills taught include fire safety, light search and rescue operations, team organization and disaster medical services.

The Surfrider Foundation Maui Chapter hosts a beach cleanup at Kahului Harbor this Saturday, Feb. 15, from 9 to 11:30 a.m.

A male paraglider is dead after a miscellaneous accident reported near mile marker 3.5 of Haleakalā Crater Road on Maui.

A group of midwives on Maui will join in a demonstration supporting their profession in solidarity against the bill during at a gathering from 11:30 to 2:30 p.m. today, Monday, Feb. 10, at the state building in Wailuku.

Several road projects are planned across Maui this week that could impact traffic during work hours.

Firefighters airlifted a 51-year old woman from Haleakalā National Park over the weekend following a reported case of altitude sickness.