Maui News
Settlement reached between UPW and County of Maui over temporary hazard pay
This settlement agreement of 20% compensates Bargaining Unit 01 workers in Maui County for hazardous work they performed during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Update: Maui man arrested for kidnapping after allegedly stealing an occupied car
A Lahaina man was arrested on kidnapping charges after he allegedly entered an occupied vehicle that was running and unlocked in the parking lot of the Kahului Shopping Center.
Maui council a step closer to buying Lahaina apartments in bid to save workforce housing
Lahaina Crossroads renters Etina Hingano and her husband work three jobs to make ends meet. After hearing that her apartment building may be purchased by the county to stay in workforce housing, Hingano breathed a sigh of relief. “Oh wow,” she told Maui Now on Tuesday. “My reaction is really good because then it’s going to stay for the people of Lahaina.”
Next phase of major Honuaʻula development with 1,000-plus homes gets green light
After a marathon contested case, Maui Planning Commission today gave a green light to the next phase of long-debated Honuaʻula, a master planned community with more than 1,000 homes slated for 670 acres mauka of Wailea. Honuaʻula would include 515 single-family residential units, 346 multifamily residential units and 288 workforce housing units, along with 24 acres of village mixed use and 103 acres of recreation and open space. A quarter of the total project area would be dedicated to permanent preservation. Also, Pi’ilani Highway will be widened from two to four lanes from Maui Meadows Mapu Place / Kilohana.
Retired and senior volunteers welcomed back to Kalana O Maui information desk
Staffing of the Information Desk was suspended in 2020 because of COVID-19 restrictions. Now, RSVP volunteers will staff the desk from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily.
DOH issues $8.7M fine, orders Navy to make critical repairs to Pearl Harbor wastewater plan
DOH assessed an $8,776,250 penalty based on 766 counts of alleged discharge of pollutants in exceedance of permit limits, 17 counts of unauthorized bypass, and 212 counts of operation and maintenance failures.
4.5 Hawaiʻi earthquake is part of seismic swarm, no apparent impact on volcanoes
A magnitude-4.5 earthquake reported at around 12:43 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, is part of a seismic swarm under the Pāhala area that has been ongoing since 2019.
Project Reef to sweep coastline as Maui’s non-mineral sunscreen ban goes into effect
On Oct. 1, the Project Reef Team plans to visit the shorelines of Maui’s most popular beaches and offer to ‘swap’ any chemical sunscreen being used with a product of their reef-safe, mineral only products.
Free ocean learning kits are available Saturday to students on Maui
Free ocean leraning kits will be distributed to students on Maui on Oct. 1 at sites sponsored by the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary.
Mā‘alaea Village Coastal Resilience and Erosion Management Plan is focus of meeting
Initiated by the Mā‘alaea Village Association, the project seeks a management plan for coastal erosion at Mā‘alaea Bay Beach by exploring the feasibility of coastal resilience strategies, including erosion mitigation options and relocation of threatened structures. The project area includes an area from Mā‘alaea Harbor to Haycraft Park.
Hilton Grand Vacations holds volunteer workday with Habitat for Humanity
Team Members from Hilton Grand Vacations partnered with Habitat for Humanity Maui to volunteer and help build a new home for a local family.
DOD’s largest telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui gets mirror recoat, preserves space domain awareness
Located on the summit of the 10,023-foot volcano Haleakalā, the telescope is part of a series of telescopes called the Maui Space Surveillance System, which the US Space Force uses for space domain awareness, or SDA, recognizing space as a priority domain for advancing national security.
Water service interruption on part of Lower Main Street, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sept. 27
Replacement of a broken 6-inch valve on Lower Main Street will result in a water service interruption for about 75 homes and 15 businesses from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, Tuesday, Sept. 27, the Department of Water Supply announced.
Missing spear fisherman found unresponsive at Nākālele
A 47-year-old Pukalani man was found unresponsive during a search at Nākālele Point on Sunday morning.
UH: Telescope atop Haleakalā to help track impact of intentional spacecraft, asteroid collision
The Faulkes North telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui, is among the observatories that University of Hawaiʻi astronomers will use to track the impact of a planned crash between a spacecraft and an asteroid.
Kāʻanapali Beach Hotel Renovation recognized at Build Hawaiʻi Awards
Kāʻanapali Beach Hotel in West Maui was recognized in the General Contractors Association 19th annual Build Hawaiʻi Awards.
Improvement projects to close War Memorial Stadium and Track for seven months
The War Memorial Football Stadium and Satoki Yamamoto Track and Field Facility will undergo repair projects that will close the facilities from Oct. 2, 2022, to May 4, 2023, the Department of Parks and Recreation announced.
Monkeypod Kitchen honored for volunteerism in South and West Maui
The popular restaurant founded by renowned Chef Peter Merriman has two locations on the island – in Wailea and Kāʻanapali – as well as two Adopt-A-Highway segments: between mile markers 3.5 to 5.5 along Piʻilani Highway, and from mile markers 16 to 18 along Honoapiʻilani Highway.
Lānaʻi photos sought for oral history project
Organizers of the project on Lānaʻi are currently inviting residents and former residents to contribute Lānaʻi photographs that will help to “ignite” further brainstorming by the artists and community about oral stories told by several residents.
St. Ann Waiheʻe Church youth learn about faith and Hawaiian cultural practices
St. Ann Waiheʻe parish enjoyed a laulau Hawaiian plate feast at their family faith formation kick-off on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022. The purpose of the event was to celebrate a new way of learning about faith.
