Maui News

On a North Kīhei beach Tuesday morning, two endangered Hawaiian monk seals were sunbathing and getting some rest.

Slated to open this summer in Kahului, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers is seeking more than 100 crew members, according to a news release today. The 176 Ho’okele St. location near Lowe’s is Maui’s first Raising Cane’s restaurant.

Annual salary for the Director was increased from $90,000 to $114,000 and from $70,000 to $102,600 for the Deputy Director. The new application deadline is on Monday, May 30, 2022.

Charges of arson have been filed against two of the three people who were arrested last week in connection with a series of suspicious brush fires in Central Maui.

Haleakalā National Park host an ʻUaʻu Night this Saturday, May 21 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. outside of the Haleakalā Visitor Center at 9,740 feet. 

New rates approved Friday by Maui County Council trim property taxes for most residents who live in their own homes.

UPDATE: Maui police have reopened the Honoapiʻilani Highway as of 9:27 p.m. on Monday, May 16, 2022. The highway was closed in the Lahaina-bound direction at the Kūihelani Highway for about a half an hour while emergency crews responded to the scene of a motor vehicle accident.

The Maui Police Department is requesting the public’s assistance with information on the whereabouts of Kainalu Higbee, 41, of Pāʻia.

Significant federal dollars are headed to Hawai‘i to help address the extinction crisis facing at least four species of native Hawaiian birds.

The Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization is now accepting public comments on its Federal Fiscal Year 2022-2025 Transportation Improvement Program Revision #5. 

A multi-agency effort to eradicate a coqui frog infestation in a remote mountain area of Waimanalo will utilize aerial application of a citric acid solution.

The National Science Foundation has awarded the University of Hawaiʻi’s Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research a five-year, $20-million grant to fund research and capacity building in support of actionable climate science through a collaboration called Change HI. 

The Hawaiʻi Dental Service Foundation donated $149,988 to Molokaʻi Community Health Center to purchase advanced dental equipment to improve the oral health of families.

The Rotary Club of Kahului awarded $16,000 worth of college scholarships last week to four Maui High School graduates: Leanne Orsono, Jessica Mae Castillo, Brooklyn Jones and Sophia Otsuka.

HeleWai Eco Tours, in partnership with the Pu‘u Kukui Watershed Preserve, announced the launch of a monthly community initiative aimed to educate, inspire, and perpetuate conservation efforts across the island. 

Hawai’i will recive more than $14 million in federal funding from the US Department of the Interior to be used for combating invasive mosquitoes in the state.

Residential households in the US are now eligible for another order of free at-home COVID-19 tests on USPS.com.

Mālama Maui Nui’s monthly Go Green Recycling event for West Maui residents will take place in Lahaina on Saturday, May 21 from 9 am to noon at 1870 Honoapi’ilani Highway (parking lot behind the Lahaina District Court). 

Nighttime, full closure of Piʻilani Highway between Kaonoulu Street and Piʻikea Avenue from 9:30 p.m. Monday, May 16, through 4:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 17, 2022, to reset the traffic control for the Kīhei Roundabout construction. Motorists, including first responders, will be detoured to South Kīhei Road as an alternate route during the full closure.

Breaking: Calling the announcement an error, Maui Police Department said this afternoon that the “Tints and Tires” campaign will not launch because the effort did not get Chief John Pelletier’s approval.