Ghost guns tough to regulate in Hawaiʻi, police and legislators agree after one used in fatal shooting of Maui officer

The County of Maui Office of Recovery is encouraging residents to find official information on Hoʻokumu Hou housing programs directly through the County due to potential fraud by third-party entities.

Kim Hightower, owner of Hightower Communications, will be the speaker at the Rotary Club of Wailuku meeting on Sept. 11, 2025.  The title of her presentation is “Simplifying Marketing: For Businesses and Rotary.”

Residents are encouraged to attend the County of Maui’s Lahaina Community Meeting at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2025, at the Lahaina Intermediate School cafeteria.

One lane will be open to alternating traffic on Olinda Road between Baldwin Avenue and Hanamu Road in Makawao due to pavement preservation work from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. weekdays Sept. 3-19, 2025, according to the County of Maui Department of Public Works Highways Division.

The Lahaina Yacht Club hosts its 35th Annual Golf Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, with a 7:30 a.m. best ball scramble and shotgun start. Checkin starts at 6:30 a.m.

AARP Hawai‘i is now accepting nominations for its 2025 Andrus Award for Community Service, which honors Hawai‘i volunteers 50 and older who are sharing their experience, talent and skills to enrich their communities.

The resolution also commemorates the 69th anniversary of the Maunaloa Observatory and honors the cultural significance of Maunaloa itself to the Native Hawaiian community. The Hawaiʻi lawmakers introduced the resolution after the Trump Administration announced its plans to cancel the lease for several National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) facilities earlier this year, including an office needed to support the MLO.  

Deborah Martinez, 69, of Kīhei was last seen on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025, at approximately 1:52 p.m., when she left her Kīhei residence in the area of Waipahe Street, with her walker and multiple bags.

Gage Noss, 34, was reported missing by a family member after not being in contact for three months. Noss last spoke to his family on Monday, May 12, 2025, via phone; he was last seen on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in Pāʻia.

This funding cut could impact a $3 million grant from the Office of Naval Research to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, which was awarded to Chip Fletcher, interim dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, to support the Coastal Research Collaborative.

Roseanne Barr has listed her picturesque 46-acre macadamia nut farm in Honokaʻa for $1.95 million, ending her time as an active farmer on the Big Island.

On May 6, 2021, two couplings on the pipeline at Red Hill failed during an attempted transfer of jet fuel. The attempted transfer was aborted after approximately 20,000 gallons of jet fuel from a storage tank flowed into the pipeline and then spilled into the tunnel.