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The temporary water service interruption is a portion of DHHL’s $37 million capital improvement project aimed at improving Molokaʻi’s 80-year-old Hoʻolehua Water System.

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A recent milestone decision affirmed Native Hawaiian kalo farmers and subsistence gatherers in a long-fought legal battle over East Maui water rights. 

Of today’s 154 cases, there are 143 cases identified as confirmed, and 11 probable cases were added to the count.  The confirmed cases included: 80 on O‘ahu (+8 probable); eight on Hawai‘i Island; 19 on Maui (+1 probable); eight on Kaua‘i (-2 probable); 0 on Molokaʻi; 0 on Lānaʻi; and 28 Hawai‘i resident diagnosed while out of state (+4 probable).

At 3:04 p.m., radar showed heavy showers over Upcountry Maui, falling at rates of 1 to 1.5 inches per hour.

The Hawaiʻi State Senate on Tuesday passed Senate Bill 2282, legislation that would strengthen statutory protections for abortion. The bill now goes to the state’s House of Representatives for consideration.

Helene Kau succeeds Jeffrey Pearson, who has resigned as Department of Water Supply director to take a position as engineering program manager with the Hawai’i Department of Accounting and General Services.

The Hawai‘i Department of Health is transitioning from daily to weekly COVID-19 data reporting effective immediately.

Lahaina Cannery welcomes its newest tenant, the Plantation Museum, presented by Lahaina Restoration Foundation.

Officials with the State Commission of Water Resource Management say a significant lack of rainfall across the island has resulted in a lack of groundwater recharge and surface flow at streams and rivers.

With the Maui County data added, the 2020 baseline report for the state has 886,211 total agricultural acres, a decrease of 27,050 acres, or minus 3% from 2015. Total acres in planted crops in 2020 was 120,632, a decrease of 31,199 acres or minus 21%.

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After testifiers debated whether adding 53 luxury homes in a hotel area would help or hurt Maui’s housing crisis, Maui Planning Commission cleared a key hurdle today for the project planned on 28 acres in Mākena. Public testifiers said the project will help keep wealthy, out-of-state homebuyers in hotel areas and reduce demand on residential communities. Other residents voiced strong opposition, saying that affordable homes – not luxury homes – should be prioritized.   

Governor David Ige announced that the state’s indoor mask mandate will end at 11:59 p.m. on March 25, 2022, when the current emergency proclamation on COVID-19 ends.

Maui County is transitioning to a new, web-based software designed to provide greater public transparency and improved customer service for planning and permit processing. It is called MAPPS.

West Maui residents and businesses served by the County of Maui Department of Water Supply are asked to voluntarily conserve water.

The Hawaiʻi State Department of Education will be updating its COVID-19 safety protocols to make outdoor masking at public school campuses and HIDOE facilities optional for students, faculty and staff, effective March 9, 2022. Indoor masking will continue to be required. The Department has required masking both indoors and outdoors as an added protection since the […]

Of today’s 63 cases, there are 61 cases identified as confirmed, and two probable cases were added to the count.  The confirmed cases included: 52 on O‘ahu (-1 probable); three on Hawai‘i Island (+3 probable); five on Maui; one on Kaua‘i; 0 on Molokaʻi; 0 on Lānaʻi; and 0 Hawai‘i resident diagnosed while out of state.

Mālama I Ke Ola Health Center, also known as Community Clinic of Maui, was recently awarded a $126,700 Hawaiʻi Dental Service Foundation grant for new dental equipment that allows all 12 of its dental operatories to safely reopen and serve the community.

In collaboration, Kūlua Maui, Artistry8, + Swag Hawaiʻi present PAHU PIHA, a free and fun activity pahu (box) for spring break to learn and teach your keiki to make lei using sustainable scrap fabric from Kūlua studio located in Makawao town.