Maui News

The Maui Fire Department has promoted Firefighter Roger Agdeppa, an 18-year department veteran, to the rank of Captain. Several other department promotions were also announced today.

Governor, Schools Superintendent and Board of Education Chairman issued several joint statements regarding HSTA letter.

A young opossum was found in a shipping container at a retail store at Ward Center this morning at about 7:30 a.m.

Today, the County Department of Public Works announced three roadway projects are scheduled to begin in the next two months and include the Kihei Roundabout at Piikea and Liloa, the restriping of Maalaea Road, and the resurfacing of Piilani Highway west of Kaupo.

Three public hearings have been scheduled in September for the Maui County Office on Aging, a division of the Department of Housing and Human Concerns, to hear comment on the draft Maui County 2011-2015 Area Plan on Aging.

Kraig Vickers, a Maui High graduate, was among 30 Americans and Afghani military who were killed yesterday when a NATO Chinook helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan.

By Wendy Osher The Surfing Goat Dairy on Maui is offering a $5,000 reward for the return of stolen goats from their pasture on Omaopio Road this week.  According to company officials, two milking goats were taken from a pasture in Kula on Thursday afternoon. The theft is in addition to five other goats from […]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is sending 379 requests to local law enforcement agencies, including the Maui Police Department, demanding to know when, why and how they are using cell phone location data to track Americans across the country.

The event, organized by the Japanese Cultural Society of Maui will take place at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 6, 2011 at the Japanese garden at Kepaniwai Park in Iao Valley.

The Environmental Protection Agency joins state and federal agencies this week in launching an investigation to track suspected pollution from the Lahaina Wastewater Reclamation facility.

Lloyd Y. Kimura, 61, the former president of Maui Industrial Loan & Finance Company, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for Prohibited Securities Practice. The state sentence will be served concurrently with a federal sentence handed down in July.

Hirono said the shutdown resulted in a loss of more than $350 million in revenue for the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and put more than 70,000 people temporarily out of work.

Both search warrants were the result of aerial observation and information and tips from the public. Big Island police have Vice-Drug Tip hotlines set up in which the public can report suspected drug operations.

The Maui Charter Commission will meet with the leadership of the Maui Fire and Police Departments at its next meeting on Monday, August 15, 2011.

Businesses have the opportunity to display and sell their products and services to the nearly 100,000 attendees that the fair averages over four days.

The agency plans to use a portion of the funds on the aerial mapping of invasive weeds. They also plan to develop a web portal that will allow land managers across the state to access real-time conservation data.

A near fatal motorcycle accident was reported near Kahului Airport early this morning. According to Maui police, a 31 year old Kihei man operating the 2009 Harley Davidson motorcycle…

The fundraiser was planned to help defray medical costs for Huck, who was diagnosed with an inoperable medical condition.

Maui patients currently receive treatment at the Liberty Dialysis Hawai’i clinic and Maui Home on Maui Lani Parkway in Kahului, and at the Molokai clinic on Kamoi Street.

A Big Island woman was charged Wednesday after police responded to a reported road rage incident in Kailua-Kona on Monday.