Maui News

The grant will support the work of Hui O Ka Wai Ola, a community-based ocean water quality monitoring program co-managed by Maui Nui Marine Resource Council, The Nature Conservancy, and West Maui Ridge to Reef Initiative.

The Hawaiʻi service features more interisland flights within the state.  New, once daily service nonstop between Kahului (Maui) and Lihue (Kauai) begins June 5, with additional flights offered on existing interisland routes. 

The Maui County Planning Department has launched a Growth Alternatives Workshop for the South Maui Community Plan update. The online-only activity will be open from April 11-29, 2022.

After more than two years, Norwegian Cruise Liner’s Pride of America — the only U.S.-flagged vessel based in Hawai’i — is sailing interisland cruises again, with Maui as its first stop. 

In Kahului, the average price is $5.32, which is two cents higher than last week, 45 cents higher than last month, and $1.55 higher than a year ago.

The public can watch live streamed undersea footage from the Luʻuaeaahikiikekumu expedition that is exploring underwater mountains at Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument on NautilusLive.org.

Aloha United Way is seeking volunteers on Oʻahu for its “Faces of ALICE” project. ALICE stands for Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed.”

Haole Peños, a unique and upscale food truck concept, has just reopened in Kīhei, launching two give-back programs designed to help feed Maui’s hungry.

Hawaiian Airlines is marking the launch of its new program in partnership with Conservation International by matching all guest offsets during April – in recognition of Earth Day later this month – and committing to offsetting all future employee business travel on Hawaiian’s flights.

Maui Obituaries for the week ending April 10, 2022. May they rest in peace.

The familiar sight of red-glowing lava flows makes it hard to imagine a time when eruptions were different, “and to think that such a time may come again someday,” Johanne Schmith, a visiting scientist to Hawaiʻi writes.

The County of Maui Department of Housing and Human Concerns’ Kaunoa Senior Services program partnered with the Maui Hotel and Lodging Association to deliver 700 free meals and gifts to kūpuna, Friday.

The Maui County Environmental Protection and Sustainability Division is soliciting grant applications for the recycling grant program for fiscal year 2023.

Maui is placing itself firmly on the matcha map with the opening of its first matcha bar, Maui Matcha at Whalers Village in Kāʻanapali.

Participants who attend the UH College Application ʻAha on April 13 or May 11 at 6 p.m. will also be eligible to win a $500 scholarship to UH which will be awarded each night.

Maui County Mayor Michael Victorino announced the award of three County of Maui grants totaling $545,000 to three nonprofits to support kalo farmers, agriculture, youth development, family services and food security.

“We didn’t want to grow a non-native or invasive seaweed because we feared we might end up proliferating invasive seaweed out in the marine environment. So, they’re only fed native limu until they’re big enough to go out into the field and to begin eating invasive seaweed,” said David Cohen, urchin hatchery manager with the DLNR Division of Aquatic Resources.

At completion, the Honomū Subsistence Agriculture Homestead Community is expected to include up to 375 parcels ranging in size from one to three acres.

Maui Now’s featured jobs for the week of April 2 to 9, 2022.

ClimbHI seeks to inspire students to finish high school and proceed to post-secondary education or employment by exposing them to future career paths and the steps necessary to achieve those goals. Their Leadership, Exploration, Inspiration (LEI) program was held on Maui on Friday.