Maui News

Upon arrival, personnel located a 36-foot sloop vessel that had it’s keel grounded next to the breakwall. Authorities say those aboard were able to free the vessel and proceeded into the harbor channel area where it was anchored overnight.

Members of the Hawai‘i State Senate and House of Representatives introduced a bipartisan bill to ban sunscreen SPF products that are not considered “safe and effective” by the US Food & Drug Administration.

Ralph Guarino, 51, of Lahaina, was arrested for second degree attempted murder following an incident on Front Street this morning that left another man with puncture-type injuries and lacerations.

Project to improve degraded conditions from intense use and high wave erosion.

The four-year $650,000 federal subsidy to Mokulele Airlines will help the carrier maintain regular air service to and from the Hāna community. Mokulele will provide Hāna with 14 nonstop round trips a week to Kahului.

More than half of Hawaiʻi’s kupuna living alone lack the financial resources to pay for basic needs, and nearly 27 percent of older couples in the state are also at risk of not being able to afford to live here, reported a recent study of financial insecurity of Americans 65 and older.

Here is a list of bills relating to tobacco bans and regulations that are scheduled for public hearing this week.

Sen. Mazie Hirono, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), and 36 of their colleagues sent a letter to President Trump demanding he retract comments he made about being open to cutting earned benefits like Medicare or Social Security to pay for his tax giveaway to corporations.

Maui police responded to 11 burglaries, 6 vehicle thefts and 7 vehicle break-ins in Maui County from Jan. 26 to Feb. 1, 2020.

The public is invited to identify solutions to problems associated with natural hazard threats such as wildfires, significant beach erosion and highway rockslides.  

Enrollment is open for a new Culinary Farm-To-Table Certificate of Professional Development being offered by the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College’s Office of Extended Learning & Workforce Development.

The University of Hawaiʻi Maui College hosts a Transfer Day Fair on Monday, Feb. 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Ka Lama Building Courtyard.

The exercise will be held on Wednesday at the University of Hawai’i Maui campus Laulima Building from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

The green, two person kayak was found about 3 miles off Ukumehame Beach on Monday. 

Maui police today identified the male victim in Saturday’s Pāʻia homicide investigation as 20-year-old Keenan Blair. Police say Blair and Allen knew each other, but say the reason for this incident is still being investigated.

A groundbreaking ceremony was held today for the County of Maui’s Wailuku Town Improvement Project. Road improvements will begin this week on Church Street as part of Phase 1A of the project.

Fire officials were notified that the woman fell on dry land at about 1:54 p.m. 

Maui company, HNu Photonics LLC, is bringing NASA-funded cutting-edge technology to the International Space Station to better understand the effects of living in space on the human body.

Maui police arrested a 46-year-old Lahaina woman on suspicion of first degree assault and disorderly conduct for an incident on Sunday night that left a male victim with critical, life-threatening injuries.  

US Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) says he will vote to convict President Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment brought by the House of Representatives.