As each day passes the potential penalties keep multiplying for the suspects or suspects who went off-roading on Haleakala National Park property earlier this week.

So far fire fighters from the Maui County Department of Fire & Public Safety have beaten the flames back every single time but at what cost? 

"If the decision is delayed for a long period of time, we want to be able to access some of that money to do some of the work with the small towns that Wailuku Main Street would have done with the money," said Mayor Alan Arakawa.

By Wendy Osher Maui firefighters responded to two home fires this morning (Friday, January 8, 2010). The first was reported at 4:36 a.m. in Waiehu. Maui Battalion Chief James “Kimo” Kino said the Waiehu fire damaged a distressed building that was not permitted and was located far up in the valley off of dirt roads.... Read more »

   Photos by Wendy Osher © 2009 A motorcyclist suffered fatal injuries in a morning accident on the Hana Highway.  Maui Police say 21-year-old Jonathan Davis of Kahului died at the scene.  Davis was operating a 2001 Suzuki GSX-R600 and traveling east on the Hana Highway (in the Paia-bound direction) at around 6:50 a.m. when... Read more »

Aaron Meyer, 49, pled guilty and was sentenced Thursday for the 1977 shooting of Toshio Kawano. Kawano, 58, and his wife, had operated for many years a small bakery and liquor store on King Street.  On the evening of September 26, 1977, Kawano was tending the store alone when he was shot several times during... Read more »

Maui’s traffic fatality count for 2008 rose to 24 following the death of a Kihei man last week.  Maui police say 20-year-old Jonathan Ferrer was transported to Maui Memorial Medical center on December 21st after an early morning accident in which the pickup truck he was in, collided into a cement island and post on... Read more »

BIG ISLAND POLICE BRIEFS: BODY OF WOMAN FOUND FLOATING IDENTIFIED Hawaii Police Department Detectives have identified a woman found floating near the Hilo breakwater on December 28, 2008. She has been positively identified as 56-year-old Debra Giamario of  Hilo. On Thursday, January 8, an acquaintance of Giamario’s initiated a missing person report stating that the woman had... Read more »

A Kahului man was arrested after allegedly shooting to death his son at their Kahului home on Tuesday night.  45-year-old Joe D. Antonio was arrested for investigation of second degree murder after turning himself in to authorities shortly after the incident.  The Maui News reports the man has been an employee with the publication for... Read more »