Maui News

Former State House Representative Tom Okamura returns to the state legislature, filling the post left vacant by Blake Oshiro.

The program begins at 7 p.m. on Jan. 4, and features the Mayor, Managing Director Keith Regan, and Finance Director Danny Agsalog.

Maui Cultural Lands President, Edwin “Ekolu” Lindsay has been added to a list of inspirational speakers participating in the upcoming TEDxMaui conference.

The Maui Interscholastic League regatta planned for Saturday, January 7, 2012, has been relocated from Kihei to Lahaina in honor of the late William Kalanikai Gonzales. Gonzales was fatally injured on Thursday, December 29, by a recreational motor boat while preparing regatta lanes in Lahaina.

Born into a musically talented family, Helm earned the 2011 Artist Fellowship for her focused artistic vision, vocal range and clarity. Authorities at NACF said the 26-year-old musician has a “rhythmic giftedness of a musician much her senior.”

The female victim, identified as Susan E. Stephens, 46, of Missouri, suffered massive head injuries in a fall from a waterfall located about 2 miles from the Hana Highway in the area of the Bamboo Forrest Trail.

As Maui rang in the New Year, there were no immediate reports of fireworks related incidents on Maui. There were, however, more fireworks for sale on Maui this year, with enough product to supply 600 permits, or three million permit-type firecrackers.

There is NO tsunami threat to Hawaii following a preliminary magnitude 7.0 earthquake reported off of the South East coast of Honshu, Japan.

Maui police have since identified the fisherman pulled from waters off of west Maui as Steven Ribellia, 32, of Lahaina.

Maui fire officials have ruled out fireworks as a possible cause of a Kahului home fire that was reported shortly before 10:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve. The fire at 547 Kunu Place, was called in by neighbors who reported seeing smoke in the area.

The male patient sustained multiple traumatic injuries to his extremities and chest as a result of a single-vehicle rollover accident.

There are more fireworks for sale on Maui this year, with enough product to supply 600 permits, or three million permit-type firecrackers. The increase in stock comes as O’ahu spends their first New Year under a consumer fireworks ban that went into effect on Jan. 2, 2011.

A $7 million appropriation has been released for emergency shoreline repair and protection improvements to the tsunami-affected Honoapiilani Highway on Maui. The funds are part of a larger $63.7 million released by Governor Neil Abercrombie for high-impact CIP projects across the state.

The Hawaii State Senate this week, adopted a social media use policy, becoming one of the few such entities to formally implement usage guidelines.

Known affectionately as Kalanikai to some and Uncle Billy to others, William Gonzales, spent many a sunset leaping from the sacred Pu’u Keka’a to the Pacific below. Friends on Thursday remembered him as “a kind soul”.

Maui police responded to 9 residential burglaries over a seven day period, between December 18 and 24, 2011.

Each year the group brings together people from the these unique realms to share inspirational and revolutionary ideas with the public. A pre-event talk story session and film screening will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, January 5th at the Akaku: Maui Community Television, media lab on Dairy Road.

Maui police say a Lahaina man who was struck by a boat while snorkeling in waters off of West Maui has since died of his injuries. Maui police say a Lahaina man who was struck by a boat while snorkeling in waters off of West Maui has since died of his injuries. The man has since been identified as 60-year-old William W. Gonzales. The man has since been identified as 60-year-old William W. Gonzales.

TV news stations out of Baton Rouge, LA report that 57-year-old Willam Sublett was working on Maui while trying to earn his state nursing license.

The New Year brings a new series of Town Hall meetings for the Maui County Police Department in January and February 2012.