Maui News

These requests support Gov. Green’s priorities for affordable housing and infrastructure, reducing homelessness, protecting natural resources and climate, education, improving access to healthcare including mental health services, government efficiency, and reducing the cost of living.

Seabury Hall’s Upper School is proud to present William Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy, As You Like It, at the ʻAʻaliʻikūhonua Creative Arts Center, March 3-5, 2023.

Hawaiʻi’s very first SONIC Drive-In opens on Maui, Monday Feb. 20, 2023. The opening will feature the debut of the new SONIC Teriyaki Burger, developed exclusively for the Maui drive-in in partnership with the Aloha Shoyu Company.

Kaunoa Senior Services will offer virtual classes for seniors age 55 and older in March. The classes are available online via Zoom.

The first heat of the event will feature Final 5 competitor Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA), Pipeline standout Molly Picklum (AUS), and injury replacement Teresa Bonvalot (PRT). 

Beginning today, Monday, Feb. 13, the Kīhei satellite office of the County of Maui Department of Motor Vehicles and Licensing temporarily will open at a later time due to a staffing shortage.

Maui Lane closures through Feb. 17. The state Department of Transportation will be conducting road work this week that will result in lane closures at various locations.

Maui Office of Economic Development invites the public to participate for free in six events planned for the Maui County 2023 National Entrepreneurship Week.

Maui Obituaries for the week ending Feb. 12, 2023. May they rest in peace.

The second Core Four Business Planning series of this year, offered by Maui Economic Opportunity’s Business Development Center, begins March 7 at MEO in Kahului. Core Four offers 24 hours of instruction on how to start, operate and grow a business and is perfect for those thinking of starting a business or in the early stages and in need of further direction, according to a news release.

“The fact that they would ask for funding to cover the plan and design for the grade-separated crossing instead of funding the entire project will set us back another five years,” said Sen. McKelvey.  “This is unconscionable, considering this school has been in the works for the past ten years. It is a travesty that this money was taken from our children and used to fund a DOT project when they have their own budget,” he said.

When Gemma Alvior made her first lehua flower design in 2016, she had no idea her work would grow over the pandemic and bloom into nationally-recognized fashion line Pulelehua Maui. Now, the Maui designer is opening her flagship brick-and-mortar boutique in Kahului.

Fourteen recruits with the graduating class have completed basic training and will begin their careers as correctional officers in facilities across the state. 

The first 31 of the third round of Maui County Micro Agriculture Grants – with an average amount of $25,000 – were awarded Monday by Maui Economic Opportunity’s Business Development Center.

A Waiheu man who was ejected from his moped during a motor vehicle crash on Friday night, has succumbed to his injuries and died, police said.

Maui Health has announced the selection of Kerry Watson as its interim CEO as a national search is underway to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Michael Rembis this spring.

A recent tip about someone on the Big Island who looks like Khiara Lavinia Henry, a young visitor who went missing more than three years ago on Maui, proved that it is not her — and the Henry family is renewing calls for public help. “Please continue to keep an eye out,” California resident Leslie Moore, Henry’s cousin who oversees tips, told Maui Now on Thursday. “She is still an active missing person with no new solid pictures, leads or connections to where she is.”

After 57 years, Barbara Silva, known affectionately by customers as “Aunty Barbara” is retiring from Pukalani Superette later this month. Silva started working at the mom and pop market in 1965, and has been a welcome face to so many customers and employees over the years.

A state resident under the age of 18 has died of influenza, the Hawaiʻi Department of Health announced today. This is the first death of a child from influenza in Hawai’i during this flu season. In the prior 10 years, Hawai’i has recorded six pediatric deaths due to influenza.

After a week of training, Seabury Hall on Maui became the first school in Hawaiʻi to train all students in hands-only CPR.