Maui News

The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation announced today that the Kahului Airport Access Road is now Mayor Elmer F. Cravalho Way.

The Maui County Charter Commission concluded its hearings Thursday, on more than 130 proposed charter amendments. Additionally, in a surprising announcement, Commission Chair Lance Collins announced his resignation effective at the end of Thursday’s meeting.

The US Geological Survey has updated its ground shaking model, published on-line in the journal Earthquake Spectra, which shows a 90% chance the 345,000 people on the islands of Hawai’i and Maui could experience damaging levels of shaking during the next 100 years.

Mālama Maui Nui asks that you drop off your bulky items such as air conditioners and kitchen appliances at the free event on Saturday.

There were 1,511 new COVID-19 cases in Hawaiʻi today, including 1,293 on Oʻahu, and 101 in Maui County. There were also three new deaths–two on Hawaiʻi Island, and one on Kauaʻi. Statewide, there were 68 COVID-19 hospitalizations on Thursday. As of this morning, there are 5 people hospitalized with COVID-19 on Maui, including one in the ICU.

All County of Maui landfills (Central Maui, Molokai, Lānaʻi and Hāna) will be open normal hours on Christmas Eve, Friday, Dec. 24, the Department of Environmental Management announced.

The mayor said he feels the moratorium would worsen an already “dire housing crisis” by renting to visitors and taking away housing that is needed by Mauiʻs working families.

Four swimmers in distress were pulled from waters in West Maui on Wednesday afternoon, but one died in the incident.

While all Omicron cases detected thus far are on O‘ahu, four specimens from Hawai‘i Island and two specimens from Maui contain a molecular clue indicating they are likely Omicron. Whole genome sequencing will be performed to determine if they are Omicron.

Submitted last year and estimated to cost approximately $38.8 million, the upgrades are part of the company’s plans to reduce its overall carbon footprint by 70% by 2030 when compared to 2005 levels and to achieve a renewable portfolio standard of 100% by 2045.

Maui County hotels led the state in November 2021 with average daily rate of $531, revenue per available room at $347 and occupancy at 65%, according to the latest Hawaiʻi Hotel Performance Report published by the Hawaii Tourism Authority.

The County of Maui Department of Water Supply reports this morning that water sample testing has removed Naʻalae Road in Kula from the list of areas where a boil water advisory remains in effect. Residents of Naʻalae Road no longer need to boil water as a precaution against findings of trace amounts of E. coli in the Upper Kula water system.

Toy donations were collected by volunteers at the Wailea Fire Station and will be distributed to more than 25 different human services agencies in Maui County.

A new ban on plastic disposable foodware takes effect in Maui County on New Yearʻs Day 2022.

The infilled neighborhood will consist of 100% owner occupied workforce housing units exclusively for local residents and all created with sustainable design and construction. The development itself will consist of 40 duplexes across three acres of land.

The Maui Preparatory Academy PTSO raised $4,850 during its Project Give-a-Gift to support 31 Moloka’i children living in foster homes.

Hawaiʻi has had six consecutive days with triple digit case counts exceeding 700. There are 961 additional COVID-19 cases in Hawai‘i today, including 866 on Oʻahu and 58 on Maui.

The number of homes in Hawaiʻi purchased by Mainland buyers in the first half of 2021 was more than double the sales in the first half of 2020 and more than 50% higher than during the first half of 2019, according to UHERO.

“We forget that addiction is a disease and affects the whole family, especially children. Since my son died of an accidental opioid overdose over two years ago, I’ve been involved in the recovery world helping families mourn, remember their loved ones and get active,” said Vincent.

At 7:45 a.m., radar showed widespread moderate rainfallcontinuing over all of windward Maui, with some showers spreading to leeward areas. “Shower coverage upstream is gradually diminishing, and thus rainfall is expected to subside as the morning progresses,” according to the NWS forecast.