Maui News

The #HIGotVaccinated campaign announced the first 15 winners of its June grand prize giveaway. Maui’s Pedro “Pete” Ortiz of Makawao won one roundtrip ticket on Southwest Airlines.

Congressman Ed Case, HI-01, announced approval by his US House Committee on Appropriations of the Department of Homeland Security funding bill, one of the 12 bills that will collectively fund the federal government for Fiscal Year 2022, commencing Oct. 1, 2021.

The confirmed cases included: 25 on O‘ahu; five on Maui (+2 probable); five on Hawai‘i Island (+1 probable); two on Kaua‘i; and eight in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state.

Hawaiian Soul, a narrative short-film based on the true story of Hawaiian hero, musician, and activist, George Jarrett Helm, Jr., is coming to Maui with a free community screening in Mākena on Monday July 19, 2021 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Mākena Beach & Golf Resort’s oceanfront lawn adjacent to Maluaka Beach.

Conservation groups, Native Hawaiian fishers and cultural practitioners sued the Hawai‘i Board of Land and Natural Resources today to protect West Hawai‘i’s reefs and coastal areas from commercial extraction of fish and other wildlife for the aquarium pet trade.

Jupiter’s icy moon Europa is of particular scientific interest because its salty ocean, which lies beneath a thick layer of ice, may currently have conditions suitable for existing life and the ocean water may even make its way into the icy crust and onto the moon’s surface. New research and modeling, led by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa planetary sciences researcher Emily Costello, estimate how far down that surface is disturbed by the process called “impact gardening.”

A Final Environmental Assessment with a Finding of No Significant Impact determination was made for the Hale Pilina Family Affordable Rental Housing Project proposed for development in Kahului, Maui.

Congressman Kaialiʻi Kahele announced today the introduction of the Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalanianaʻole Protecting Family Legacies Act, bipartisan legislation that ensures long-term tenancy to beneficiaries of the Hawaiian Homes Commissions Act (HHCA) and their successors. H.J. Res. 55, reduces the successorship qualification of a lessee’s spouse, children, grandchildren and brothers or sisters from one quarter to one thirty-second Hawaiian.

The concert is among one of the first live events returning to the Amphitheater lawn and seats will be arranged in socially distanced pods containing either two or four seats. Patrons will need to purchase a full pod to ensure that those seated together are members of their own ‘ohana. There are no single ticket purchases for this event.

Blood Bank of Hawaiʻi returns to Maui in July to host its monthly neighbor island blood drive. Maui donors will have the opportunity to help Hawaiʻi’s patients, as well as help Special Olympic Hawaiʻi athletes statewide.

Passengers over the age of 18 from every US mainland airport and on any airline may utilize CLEAR’s Health Pass as part of the Hawaiʻi Safe Travels testing and vaccine requirements for arrival in all airports in Hawaiʻi.

Due to a shortage of personnel, curbside trash collections have been rescheduled for pickup on Wednesday, July 14, in areas of Pāʻia and Kula, the County of Maui Department of Environmental Management announced.

A man from North Carolina is the latest person to be arrested on Maui for alleged violation of rules and orders to related to the state’s travel quarantine.

Maui community groups Hui o Nā Wai ‘Ehā and Maui Tomorrow Foundation, who started this legal action 17 years ago to restore Nā Wai ‘Ehā stream flows diverted by plantations for 150 years, are expressing concerns about key parts of the decision they are hoping can be clarified or improved.

The confirmed cases included: 42 on O‘ahu (-1 probable); six on Hawai‘i Island (+1 probable); four on Kaua‘i; one on Maui; and eight in Hawai‘i residents diagnosed while out of state.

Maui United Way raised a total of over $600,000 this year during its Live United campaign, which will go toward 39 health and human services programs in Maui County.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released images of a cargo plane that ditched in waters off of Oahʻu earlier this month shortly after takeoff from the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport while en route to Kahului, Maui.

Maui’s Puniawa Kuloloio Vedder was selected as the first recipient of the Henry S. Yogi Foundation Scholarship, presented today at the Maui Lani Golf Course.

The state BLNR heard from the Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands (OCCL) on Item K-2, a programmatic statewide small-scale beach restoration (SSBR) permitting program that would reauthorize and expand the existing beach nourishment program OCCL to streamline activities. The motion is highly contested by many in the Maui community.

Maui’s Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea ushers in a new chapter with the return of Ben Shank as the resort’s new General Manager in July 2021.