Maui News

Former governor Linda Lingle returned to the Valley Isle on Tuesday for the opening of her Maui headquarters in her campaign for US Senate.

McDonald’s Restaurants of Hawaii presented a check for $17,500 to University of Hawaii head football coach Norm Chow last week. The money was raised from the Super Sack Big Mac promotion, which ran during the 2011 football season.

The female was wearing a helmet but found 15 feet makai of the Honoapiilani Highway suffering from multiple traumatic injuries that required advance life-support care.

Another crime occurred on the weekend at The Paradise Gardens Condominium in Kihei, this time a burglary where a stolen computer snapped a photo of a suspect.

A company that sells deep-sea water drawn off the Kona coast has agreed to pay a $2 million fine for violations of its bottling permit.

Hawaii will get more than $128,000 to help protect and preserve Hawaiian monk seals, green sea turtles and hawksbill turtles.

Big Island police charged Brannon Ramirez with first-degree assault; and search officially begins for a 16-year-old girl reported as missing from Puna.

The police department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating Elaban-Paoa.

Construction on the $5 million is set to start at the end of May 2012, and is expected to take one year to complete. The meeting, hosted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, May 16, at the Mitchell Pau‘ole Center, and will also include information on impacts to harbor operations.

Agency officials say monk seal deaths and injuries from fishing interactions can often be prevented, and adverse impacts to fishermen and seals can be reduced through early reporting of incidents.

Authorities say the paraglider crashed into the trees and then the hillside of Haleakala mountain. The 49 year-old-male patient was reported to be with head injuries..

Sakai previously held the post during the Cayetano Administration. This time, he fills the vacancy created by the current director, Jodie Maesaka-Hirata, who will take on the role of Deputy Director of Corrections–a post that was left vacant by Joe Booker who moved to the mainland.

The Department of Hawaiian Homelands has a new director. Governor Neil Abercrombie today appointed Jobie Masagatani to the post, to fill the vacancy left by Alapaki Nahale-a, who officially resigns from his post on May 15.

“Preparedness saves lives and knowing how to prepare is an important first step,” said Nishimoto. There will be experts from various agencies at the Expo…

A presidential disaster declaration following a severe storm in March, made funding available to certain private, nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis in Maui County.

In addition to the inconvenience of a power outage, metallic balloons entangled in overhead power lines also pose a safety hazard to electrical crews who need to remove them to restore the power, said MECO officials.

Plans call for the proposed relocation of the terminus from the current end point at Launiupoko, to the vicinity of the former Olowalu Landfill, further south.

The Coast Guard reopened the comment period for the interim rule that established a temporary security zone at Kaunakakai Harbor during visits of the Passenger Vessel Safari Explorer.

A final environmental assessment was filed for a project to widen the Pi’ilani Highway from Kilohana Drive near the Wailea Fire Station to Wailea Ike Drive near the Wailea Gateway Center.

“They now have a place right in their neighborhood to skate, play, grow and develop. Children will be coming here to meet their friends and have fun in a safe, clean environment beginning today and for many years to come,” he said.