Maui News

Police made a total of 21 impaired driving arrests, including one arrest for habitually operating a vehicle while under the influence.Police also towed 21 vehicles as part of a tow ordinance that allows police to do so as a condition of DUI arrests. 

There were 499 additional COVID-19 cases in Hawai‘i on Tuesday. Statewide, there are 443 people hospitalized with COVID-19.

Maui Economic Opportunity and Maui United Way were selected as Charity of the Year finalists in the Better Business Bureau (BBB) Torch Award for the Great West and Pacific region, which recognizes integrity and ethical business practices.

Enrollment at Hawaiʻi’s public and charter schools for the 2021 – 2022 school year decreased to 171,600 students, compared with an enrollment of 174,704 students at the start of last school year — a difference of 1.7%.

Over the course of September, Mental Health America of Hawai`i, E Ola Hou Prevent Suicide Maui County Task Force, MEO and other Maui organizations are hosting a line-up of events and activities surrounding mental health.

This year, the community’s donations at Foodland, Sack N Save or Foodland Farms checkouts of up to $249 will go to their choice of participating Hawaiʻi nonprofits, including the option to support Thanksgiving food distributions statewide.

Hāna Highway is closed both directions at East Kuiaha Road in Haʻikū due to a brush fire. Motorists are asked to avoid the area.

The 2021-2022 Haʻikū Hoʻolauleʻa and Flower Festival’s new poetry contest “My Maui,” is now open for submissions from Sept. 1-29, 2021. The contest is presented by the Haʻikū Community Association and is open for students on Maui from grades K-12.

Maui on Thursday, Sept. 9, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Maui County Federal Credit Union awarded 20 students with $1,000 scholarships towards their college education, giving out an additional five scholarships this year.

Windsurfing legend Fred Haywood, together with Pacific Home Loans and Maui Jim, has partnered with social good platform PixlBank to launch a campaign that will turn photos into funds to help clean up Maui’s beaches and coastal waters.

There were 756 additional COVID-19 cases in Hawai‘i on Monday, including 85 on Maui.

Honoapiʻilani Now OPEN: 8:45 p.m. 9.5.21). Honoapiilani Highway is now OPEN in both directions. Drive safely.

Maui Obituaries for the week ending Sept. 5, 2021. May they rest in peace.

There were 2 events with 3 or more felt reports in the Hawaiian Islands during the past week: a M2.8 earthquake 21 km (13 mi)  WNW of Mountain View at 19 km (12 mi) depth on Aug. 25 at 9:25 a.m. HST and a M3.3 earthquake 9 km (5 mi) ENE of Pāhala at 32 km (19 mi) depth on Aug. 20 at 10:16 a.m. HST.

Hawai‘i’s COVID-19 deaths increased to 624, with 10 new deaths reported today, including three deaths each on Maui and O’ahu, and one death each on Kaua’i and Hawai’i Island. One of the Maui deaths involved a man in his 20s with underlying conditions.

The state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations today announced it paid $700 million to the US Department of the Treasury for advances it has received to pay regular unemployment insurance benefits.

A school teacher at Pearl City High School that lives in Waipahu was presented with a big check to reward him for being vaccinated and entering the state’s #HIGotVaccinated contest.

At its last regular board meeting, the Association of Hawaiians for Homestead Lands added one board seat to represent the interests of Hawaiians on the waitlist for a land award but living on the US continent.  

What are symptoms leading up to an eruption? The main player in monitoring volcanoes is seismicity—the frequency and magnitude of earthquakes.  When magma enters the volcanic edifice, it accumulates and makes space for itself by compressing many tiny void spaces.  Continued filling by magma creates pressure on the walls of reservoirs, causing slip, faults, or cracking in the surrounding brittle rock.  All these motions result in the generation of earthquakes.