Maui News

The Maui Youth Philharmonic Orchestra is offering classes in classical music this fall at the Queen Ka’ahumanu Center in Kahului, upstairs between Central Maui Tax and the Fun Factory.

Local nonprofit Eye of the Needle Holistic Living has provided a water-from-air generator to the Maui Medic Healers Hui new community venue in Lahaina. According to the nonprofit, this new generator will provide three gallons of fresh drinking water per day and prevent excess plastic bottle waste by as much as 5,670 bottles per year.

Gov. Josh Green, M.D., will travel to Japan on Monday, Sept. 2, to engage in cross-cultural exchanges, attend business meetings on behalf of the state of Hawai‘i, and sign a sister-state memorandum of understanding. Green will also lead a delegation of local businesses for the Tokyo International Gift Show, meet with the US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, and will meet with leaders from Fukuoka, Ehime and Hiroshima prefectures. 

After a two-week engagement on Kauaʻi, Hōkūleʻa departed Nāwiliwili Small Boat Harbor on Friday and sailed to Haleʻiwa, Oʻahu, the third stop on the Pae ʻĀina Statewide Sail.

Maui County Council members referred to the Housing and Land Use Committee on Tuesday a bill stemming from a new state law that requires counties to change the way accessory dwellings are permitted on residential property.

A team led by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers aims to use a $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to tackle clean energy needs on multiple fronts from sustainable solutions and integrating Native Hawaiian knowledge to engaging with high school students.

The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is part of an innovation hub that will train the next generation of high tech workers in microelectronics, the design and creation of small electronic devices such as the microchips in computers and cell phones.

Nine extinct-in-the wild sihek (also known as Guam kingfishers) arrived at their new home at The Nature Conservancy’s preserve and research station at Palmyra Atoll, 1,000 miles south of Hawai‘i, on Wednesday. The chicks—four females and five males—completed their historic 4,500 mile flight from Wichita, Kansas safely and are temporarily settled into aviaries within their new home.

The event was organized by Nā Moku ‘Aupuni ‘O Ko‘olau Hui and included an announcement that the group secured a 65-year lease for the former Camp YMCA, now known as Ke‘anae Uka.

A collaboration between AES Hawaiʻi, Young Brothers and Goodfellow Bros. has resulted in the donation of 212 solar panels to the nonprofit Made in Hope Hui Homes program for emergency housing of families displaced by the Maui wildfires.  AES Hawai‘i provided the solar panels, Young Brothers shipped them from Hawai‘i Island to Maui, and Goodfellow Bros. coordinated the […]

The Maui Ocean Center Marine Institute and SHARKastics will host a collaborative reef cleanup along Sugar Beach on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 8 to 11 a.m.

The Rotary Club of Kīhei-Wailea will be hearing from Ralph Thomas, a representative of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW Post 385), to share about “Who we are – What we have done and what we are doing – How your organization can help spread the word.”

The Hawai‘i Department of Health has confirmed a case of hepatitis A infection in a food service employee at Hana Koa Brewing Company, located at 962 Kawaiaha‘o St., in Honolulu on O’ahu. Anyone who has consumed any food or drink products from this establishment from Aug. 3-16, 2024, may have been exposed to the disease, according to the DOH.

Seven forestry projects have been selected by Kaulunani Urban and Community Forestry, a program of the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW), to receive funds to strengthen community connections with trees. Funding from Kaulunani will support these projects on Kauaʻi, Maui, Oʻahu and Hawaiʻi Island over the next three years.

The Wailuku First Friday street party on Sept. 6, 2024 kick’s-off the two month Hawaiian Showcase “Festivals of Aloha.” The event, from 6 to 9 p.m., features entertainment by Maui Music Mission, Te Ohi Nui and Hālau Keola Aliʻi O Kekai. The Hammah House Band celebrates their release of the single “Like Mehk,” with music on the Market St. Stage.

Maui Economic Opportunity Transportation Director Patty Copperfield was recognized Thursday night as one of Hawaiʻi’s best and brightest young leaders, earning a spot on Pacific Business News’ 40 Under 40 Class of 2024.

Second Circuit Court Judge Peter Cahill granted a motion on Friday to allow the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court to determine whether or not insurers can interfere with the historic $4.037 billion global settlement for plaintiffs in the Maui Wildfires Cases. The findings by the higher court could either provide more clarity on the role of insurers seeking to recoup money from payouts; or, if it does not reach a resolution in nine months, the settlement could be terminated.

With residential debris removal nearly 100% complete in these areas, opening of the Wahikuli and Māla neighborhoods in Lahaina is set for Tuesday, Sept. 3, at noon. The opening includes zones 1C, 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F, 3A, 3B, 3C, 4A, 4B and 4C, allowing clear access for residents, according to Maui Emergency Management Agency. As these zones reopen, security checkpoints will be reallocated to other areas in the Lahaina Impact Zone.

Conservationists on Kauaʻi have started aerial applications of the larvicide Bacillus Thuringiensis Israelensis or BTi, in an effort to suppress populations of the species of mosquito that carries avian malaria. Similar applications are scheduled to begin on Maui after the first of the year. It’s part of the broader effort to save near-extinct populations of honeycreepers like ʻakikiki in native forests.

Gov. Josh Green appointed Matthias Kusch on Friday to fill the House District seat left vacant by the late Representative Mark Nakashima, who also was unopposed in the recent primary election.