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The Maui County council will hold a series of public hearings on Monday, May 17 to set rates for the county’s Fuel Tax, Vehicle Weight Tax, and Real Property Tax.  The proposed fuel tax is 16 cents; the proposed vehicle weight tax would increase from the current 1.75-cent tax to 2.75-cent tax for a 6,500 […]

   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 […]

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 […]