Maui News

Lokelani Intermediate School will be closing today, September 6, 2012, due to a school wide power outage.School personnel are currently contacting parents to pick up students.

Three men ranging in age from 18 to 20 were transported to the hospital in stable condition after the jeep they were in rolled over and down a 30 foot embankment near the old Maui High School.

MECO officials say an estimated 13,000 customers in Kihei and Wailea lost electrical power just before 2:40 this afternoon.

The 2012 Maui SAREX, or Search and Rescue Exercise, will run from 9 a.m. to noon at the ocean area fronting the old Suda Store along South Kihei Road.

The re-branding effort includes a new series of workshops in which participants will help to define the town’s brand. After a series of workshops focused on infrastructure and planning, the reWAILUKU initiative continues to evolve, this time with the “reBRANDING” of Wailuku Town.

Reality TV film crews will be in old Wailuku Town this week where filming begins on the proposed Pawn Stories pilot episode.

Boy Scouts on Maui with Troop 14 from Kula spent a recent weekend constructing a 300-foot trail, and expanding native reforestation at the Pu‘u Mahoe cinder cone.

Kaupakalua Road is now OPEN. The road was closed at around 5:45 this morning due to a large tree that had fallen down. The road has since been cleared and police reopened the road at 9:20 a.m.

UPDATE: Hawaii News Now reports that the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center has since issued an ALL CLEAR for Hawaii following a 7.6 magnitude earthquake off the coast of Costa Rica this morning.

For the first time in a dozen years, regularly scheduled air service will resume in the remote East Maui town of Hana.

Displaced occupants of the Valley Isle Resort were on property today recovering thier belongings after a Labor Day fire on the resort grounds gutted a gym, offices and other resort facilities.

Crews from Maui Fire & Flood are on location today cleaning units at the Valley Isle Resort, where a structure fire caused an estimated $1.4 million in damage on Monday.

The initiative is one of the first efforts in the state to implement a comprehensive management strategy to address impacts to coral reefs across multiple watersheds. The watershed plan will be funded 75% by the Corps and 25% by DLNR.

The Civil Defense monthly test of the statewide outdoor siren warning system, takes place today at 11:45 a.m.

Maui Emergency Management Officer Anna Foust will be the special guest on the latest edition of Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa’s TV Show, “Your County with Mayor Arakawa.”

The University of Hawaiʻi Maui College will host to four visiting scholars from the Philippines as part of a cultural exchange in September.

The fire was first reported at 6:01 a.m. on Monday, September 3, 2012 at 4327 Lower Honoapiilani Highway at the Valley Isle Resort.

Seven hikers had to be airlifted from a 2,000 foot ridge early Sunday morning while attempting to hike from Olowalu to ‘Iao Valley on Maui.

Maui Fire Services Chief Lee Mainaga said when units arrived, occupants of the building had already doused the small fire with fire extinguishers.

A West Maui woman who was extricated from a vehicle involved in a crash on the Honoapiilani Highway on Thursday afternoon, has since died from injuries she sustained in the crash. Maui police have since identified the woman as…