Maui News

Hawaiʻi Gas filed an application with the Hawaiʻi Public Utilities Commission on Friday requesting adjustments to utility gas rates on all islands. The rate increase would provide for increased reliability and energy resiliency and cover operational and maintenance costs that have gone up significantly over the past seven years.

Members of the Maui Strikers Mixed Plate 2010 Girls Soccer Team have returned home after finishing first and second in summer tournaments in Oregon.

The Maui Chamber of Commerce is reminding the community that nominations are still being accepted for the Annual Mayor’s Small Business Awards in 2024 and are due on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024. All nominees and winners will be honored during an event on Sept. 19, 2024.

The monthly test of the all-hazard Statewide Outdoor Warning Siren System is scheduled for Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, at 11:45 a.m. The siren test will be coordinated with a test of the Live Audio Broadcast segment of the Emergency Alert System.

Since its inception in 2005, this grant program has provided over $376,000 to public schools across Hawaiʻi, funding programs, tools, supplies, and equipment to boost science education. Public schools serving intermediate, high school, and college-grade students on Oʻahu, Maui, and Molokaʻi are eligible to apply.

The prone paddleboard race was the featured competition for an international field of athletes in the last of two race weekends celebrating the 25th Moloka’i-2- O’ahu Paddleboard World Championships.

“By putting AI-enhanced tools directly into the hands of local producers, we’re not just developing new technology—we’re cultivating a more sustainable and resilient agricultural future for our islands,” said Sayed Bateni, project principal investigator and professor in the UH Mānoa Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering and Water Resources Research Center.

For a sixth year, Pukalani Superette has completed a school supply donation to Pukalani Elementary School’s entire fourth grade class.

US Rep. Jill Tokuda will be the keynote speaker this week when Hawaiʻi Job Corps Center holds its commencement ceremony at 1 p.m. Friday at the Maunaloa campus. Eighteen young men and women will receive certificates in trades such as culinary arts, facility maintenance, hospitality & lodging and business technologies.

Volunteer efforts to restore an eroding shoreline in Windward Oʻahu are being observed for a new feasibility commissioned by the Hawaiʻi Climate Change Commission, DLNR, UH Sea Grant, and Oʻahu MPO, in contract with Sea Engineering.

Fifty-nine Maui County nonprofits will share $1,559,449 raised during the Maui Hotel & Lodging Association’s annual Maui County Charity Walk that happened last May.

Six new, public preschool classrooms will open in Maui County this fall for the 2024-2025 school year, announced Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and the state’s Ready Keiki Initiative on Friday. The pre-K schools enroll 20 students per classroom at no cost to parents.

AARP Hawai`i and Senior Planet are offering free Tech Talk classes Aug. 2 at Kaunoa Senior Center in Spreckelsville to teach kupuna about managing their private information online and about artificial intelligence and how to recognize when something has been created by AI.

A beachfront estate in Wailea-Mākena, Maui, Hawaii, is set to hit the auction block next month via Concierge Auctions. The estate, 4610 Mākena Road, is listed at $33 million and will be presented in cooperation with Nancy Callahan of Coldwell Banker Island Properties and Paul Stukin of Deep Blue HI.

The Lahaina O-Bon Festival will be held on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025, at Lahaina Jodo Mission (next to Māla Wharf). The evening will begin with live entertainment at 5 p.m., followed by Bon dancing starting at 7 p.m. This cherished event is a collaboration between three historic Lahaina Buddhist temples — Lahaina Jodo Mission, Lahaina Hongwanji, and Lahaina Shingon Mission — all of which were lost in the August 2023 fire.

Hawaiʻi Youth Symphony has announced the appointment of Carmela Resuma as director of Development, effective immediately.

Volunteer registration is now open for Maui’s annual PGA TOUR stop, announced The Sentry on Tuesday.

Hep Free Hawaiʻi, a local coalition dedicated to increasing access to viral hepatitis and harm reduction services across the state, marks today as World Hepatitis Day, which Gov. Josh Green has declared “Hawaiʻi Hepatitis Elimination Day.”

Crater Road will be closed for a week as of Saturday morning as a safety precaution amid an active 574-acre Crater Road fire nearby, County of Maui officials announced.

While Maui County hotel performance remains affected by the aftermath of the August wildfires, the county still led the state in revenue per available room in June due to comparatively higher average daily rate, reports the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority.