Maui News

A three-day online County of Maui Government & Nonprofit Career Fair is set to connect prospective employees with employers from May 9-11, followed by an in-person Career Fair from 3 to 6 p.m., Thursday, May 12, at the University of Hawaiʻi Maui College’s Pāʻina Building.

“This necessary resolution fairly compensates the Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiaries and brings this litigation to a close, but it is not the end of the story. I remain committed to developing and delivering homes for the Hawaiian Home Lands beneficiaries,” said Gov. David Y. Ige.

This year, Hawaiian Telcom is expanding its ultra-fast fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) internet service known as Fioptics to 50,000 more Hawaiʻi locations, with more than half on the neighbor islands, including Lāna‘i and Moloka‘i.

Maui County has extended the application deadline to April 30 for its Small Business Grant Program, which provides $5,000 federally funded grants to small businesses recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic.

A juvenile monk seal found on Maui’s Oneloa Beach in Kapalua last month, was released after undergoing surgery to remove an ingested fishing hook. 

A plan to put the brakes on camper vans and other recreational vehicles used for visitor lodging moved ahead Friday. If approved, the proposed bill would also cap hotel and other transient accommodations as a way to stem the negative impacts of over-tourism.

A 69-year-old woman from La Mesa, California died after she lost consciousness while on a snorkeling trip to Molokini Islet off Maui.

The Maui Police Department’s Traffic Division issued a total of 195 citations for use of a mobile electronic device while driving during the department’s distracted driving awareness campaign last week.

Three Kīhei residents were arrested during a drug bust at a South Maui home on Thursday, April 21, 2022.

For Mahi Pono’s challenge, students were asked to address the problem of overcoming the effects of wind on citrus trees, including damage, erosion, and dust production.

The first biography of Maui-born, trailblazing legislator Patsy T. Mink – Fierce and Fearless – will be published by NYU Press on May 3.

Mahi‘ai Match-Up is a part of Kamehameha Schools’ commitment to strengthen Hawai‘i’s agriculture industry and food systems for future generations.

Microbes may be small, but they are highly impactful to environmental and human health amid a changing climate, according to a new report co-authored by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa oceanographer David Karl.

The iconic Lē‘ahi – Diamond Head State Monument, will become the third park unit in the Hawai‘i State Park system to require advanced reservations for out-of-state visitors, beginning on May 12, 2022.

Maui-based cheer gym achieves two first place finishes at the 2022 All-Star World Championship event in Orlando, Florida.

Maui Obituaries for the week ending April 24, 2022. May they rest in peace.

Since 2010, the public’s participation in the National Take Back Initiative has resulted in the collection and disposal of over 56,000 pounds of unused/expired prescription medications in Hawaiʻi.

Earth Day was first established on April 22, 1970, to raise awareness of some of the harmful effects industrialization was having on the environment. It has since become the largest secular observance on the planet.  

Personnel from the state Department of Land and Natural Resources contacted police after locating a piece of unexploded ordnance, which they said washed onshore at Hulopoʻe Beach Park on Lānaʻi.  

A 48-year-old Wailuku man is in critical condition following a motor vehicle crash on the Honoapiʻilani Highway (30) in Waikapū early Sunday morning.