Maui News

Native Hawaiian and Filipino breast cancer survivors are being sought to share their healthy lifestyle strategies for a study being conducted by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the University of Guam.

Registration is open for Maui Cancer Resources’ free “Growing Stronger Cancer Support” workshop on July 16 at St. Theresaʻs Church in Kīhei.

Maui residents who are interested in becoming a school bus driver can test drive the big yellow vehicles during a June 25 event at Maui High School.

The Hawaiʻi Department of Health joined child health advocates as Gov. David Y. Ige signed HB 986 and HB 987, two bills to expand and improve keiki hearing and vision screening.

The US Environmental Protection Agency awarded $264,000 to the Hawaiʻi Department of Land and Natural Resources to boost programs that restore habitat, protect water quality and wetlands.

Thursday marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, landmark legislation that ensures access, equality, and justice for women in both academics and athletics. Maui’s own Patsy Mink co-authored the amendment, which passed in 1972, and was renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education Act in her honor in 2022. Mink was born and […]

Allison Wong was named the new executive director of the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, effective Aug. 1.

The Nā Kamehameha commemorative celebration returned in person to Lahaina town on Saturday with the pāʻū parade and the ho‘olaule‘a (Hawaiian festival) under the big Lahaina banyan tree.

Maui police responded to 12 burglaries, 17 vehicle thefts and 17 vehicle break-ins in Maui County over a seven-day period from June 5 to 11, 2022.

In a recent University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa study, 23% of Hawaiʻi nurses surveyed said they are considered leaving the workforce because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

With the 14th group of Ka Ipu Kukui Fellows graduating on June 29, the nonprofit now is seeking applicants for the 15th cohort of its leadership program. 

The long awaited COVID-19 vaccines for keiki under age 5 will be available on all Hawaiian islands in the coming week, according to the Hawai‘i Department of Health.

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

Asteroid Bennu’s boulder-covered surface acts like body armor to protect it against small meteoroid impacts, according to observations of craters from a NASA spacecraft.

An unidentified male pedestrian was in the outer westbound lane of Kaʻahumanu Avenue in Kahului at about 8:47 p.m. Friday when he was struck by two vehicles and suffered fatal injuries, according to the Maui Police Department.

What started as five bones turned into more than five boxes of bones found over the last several years at surf spot Puamana Beach Park in West Maui.  Native Hawaiian cultural practitioner Keeaumoku Kapu, who has been overseeing the iwi kūpuna, or ancestral bones, said he hopes they will get rest again soon. 

With eager skaters standing by, Mayor Michael Victorino led reopening ceremonies this morning for Kihei’s newly revamped Kalama Skate Park.

In a federal indictment unsealed today, former Honolulu Prosecuting Attorney Keith Kaneshiro and Honolulu businessman Dennis Mitsunaga are charged with participating in a bribery scheme.

Tonight’s Maoli @ the MACC concert in the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s A&B Amphitheater and Yokouchi Pavilion has sold out.

The University of Hawaiʻi will be awarded up to $25 million by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop an engineered coral reef ecosystem to help protect coastlines from flooding, erosion and storm damage.