Maui News

The Senate Committee on Ways and Means passed a bill unamended that would raise the minimum wage to $18 by 2026. 

Fueled by dwindling inventory, Maui County last month set historic highs for both residential single-family and condominium home median sales prices, according to data released today by Realtors Association of Maui. Single-family home median sales price rose 19.5% year over year to $1,177,500. For condos, the median sales price shot up nearly 28% year over year to $820,000.

A three‐judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled in favor of a group of female student athletes at Hawaiʻi’s largest public high school, Campbell High School, in their Title IX civil rights lawsuit.

To celebrate its grand opening in the new learning space and offices, Learning Endeavors is offering discounts for upcoming classes and camps for youth as well as two free events for the community. 

The newly established Maui Department of Agriculture will open on July 1, 2022, and the County of Maui is recruiting a Director and Deputy Director of Agriculture. 

This year’s recipient is Nikki-Ann Yee, co-founder of Maʻi Movement Hawaiʻi, a volunteer-run organization that raises awareness about menstrual equity and period poverty in Hawaiʻi.

Hawaiian Electric has established a permanent program that offers a discounted rate to about 2,000 residential customers with special medical needs, including those dependent on life-support equipment at home.

Maui Street Market hosts ʻOhana Game Night from 4:30 to 9 p.m. on Friday, April 15 in the parking lot at 150 Hāna Highway in Kahului. 

State House District 11 Representative, Tina Wildberger announced that she will not be running for re-election, and will not seek further political office for the 2022 election cycle.

Maui County Council voted recently to settle a lawsuit that claims the county was negligent in allowing an unguided, unpermitted Haleakalā bike tour that left a visitor paralyzed from the waist down. Meanwhile, the council is working on proposed rules that would tighten regulations on the downhill bike industry, which has been riddled with resident complaints for decades.

The Federal Aviation Administration honored two Mokulele pilots who helped rescue two other individuals from a plane that crashed after takeoff from the Hāna Airport on Jan. 15, 2022.

This includes, but is not limited to, posting of political campaign signs on overpasses, fencing, sign posts, and poles. It is also illegal to sign wave on overpasses above state freeways or highways.

The 2022 Women of Excellence, “Maui’s Mana Wahine” recipients are: Makena Sunset Kawaialoha Guzman, Valerie Janikowski, Adrianne Heely, Shandell Lehua Kaopio, Gina Gillstrom, P. Denise La Costa, and Luz Medina,M.D. Posthumous awards were issued to: Linda Higgins, Phyllis McOmber, Sarai Stricklin, and Terry Jones.

The new application deadline for the position of state superintendent is April 12, 2022 at 5 p.m. HST.

Maui Now received 544 verified responses with 90% identifying as Maui County residents and 10% identifying as non-residents. A total of 86% of respondents identified as registered voters and 14% as non-registered voters.

Vibrio vulnificus, a “flesh-eating” bacterium that lives naturally in the water of the Ala Wai Canal in Waikīkī, is likely to increase substantially in coming decades, but infections are rare, according to recently published research led by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.

Edwin “Ekolu” Lindsey, president of Maui Cultural Lands, will be the guest speaker at the free online Maui Mauka Conservation Awareness Training on April 28 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The free Maui AgFest & 4-H Livestock Fair is back on June 4 at the War Memorial special events field in Kahului.

Global marine conservation nonprofit Pacific Whale Foundation presents the 6th annual World Whale Film Festival in celebration of World Ocean Day on June 8, 2022.

Maui police responded to six burglaries, 14 vehicle thefts and 14 vehicle break-ins in Maui County over a seven-day period from March 20 to 26, 2022.