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The Maui Planning Commission approved permits on Tuesday for two families to rebuild homes destroyed in the August 2023 Lahaina wildfire and authorized the Wailuku Hongwanji Mission to replace aging structures with a new multipurpose hall.

Habitat for Humanity Maui announced this week that its 2025 Disaster Recovery Fundraiser, held Oct. 4 at Old Lahaina Luau, raised more than $165,000 to support ongoing wildfire recovery and rebuilding efforts across Maui. The event brought together community members, sponsors and partners for an evening of connection and live entertainment. Guests heard from partner families who […]

The Maui Planning Commission is scheduled to hold a public hearing tomorrow morning on a $16.3 million proposal for exterior renovations and improvements at the Four Seasons Resort Maui in Wailea. The meeting is set for 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Planning Department conference room at Kalana Pakui in Wailuku. The item is the first on […]

Hale Mahaolu, a nonprofit affordable housing provider, has announced plans to redevelop the Front Street Apartments, which are owned by the Hawai‘i Housing Finance and Development Corporation. The redevelopment project is expected to provide 240 units of family housing for Maui residents.

The Maui County Department of Environmental Management is seeking public comment on a proposed $6 million project to upgrade Waikapū sewage and waterline systems.

Maui County’s Department of Public Works has published a final environmental assessment and a finding of no significant environmental impact for an $80 million project to extend Līloa Drive by 4,900 feet.

The Maui Planning Commission approved a special management area permit Tuesday for a somewhat scaled-back reconstruction of an oceanfront home on Front Street property owned by a retired Boeing executive and his wife, Stanley and Dilara Deal. In the end, the most hotly disputed issue: the size of the home was reduced about 10% from […]

Public input is being sought on a state Department of Education’s master plan improvements for Baldwin High School, including sports facilities and classrooms on 42 acres in Wailuku. Proposed master plan improvements include construction of athletic facilities, including locker rooms, a weight room, a training room, track and practice field, and four physical education classrooms. […]

The Maui Planning Commission is wrestling with a precedent-setting decision on the first special management area permit for reconstruction of an oceanfront Front Street home destroyed in the August 2023 Lahaina wildfire, after concluding public testimony Tuesday.

The County of Maui, Department of Environmental Management, Wastewater Reclamation Division proposes to construct two new 8-inch sewerlines along Kaiola Place and Ohukai Road and install 10 6-inch service laterals and eight sewer manholes to connect 10 properties to the County wastewater system in Kīhei.

As vehicular homelessness rises across the United States, a 2024 study of one of the nation’s largest safe parking programs suggests that providing designated, secure parking spaces for those living in their vehicles can be an effective tool in addressing homelessness.

More than two years after Maui County Council members unanimously approved a bill to allow homeless people to sleep in their cars in county parking lots, a pilot program has yet to be implemented, even after the J. Walter Cameron Center’s parking lot was initially identified as an appropriate location in the fall of 2022.

The County of Maui Department of Human Concerns on Friday released “Recommendations to Address Homelessness in Maui County,” a report offering strategic solutions to reduce and prevent homelessness across the county.

A draft environmental assessment has been completed for an 1.6-mile, southerly extension of Waiʻale Road that would, literally, pave the way for the Waikapū Country Town development. The new 80-foot-wide road would provide access to 1,433 homes, including 500 affordable units, as part of the master-planned Waikapū Country Town development, according to the draft document.

Public comments are due Nov. 22 on a draft environmental assessment for a proposed Department of Hawaiian Home Lands agricultural lot subdivision on Molokaʻi.

More than three years after it broke ground in February 2021, the Central Maui Transit Hub is built in Kahului but remains unused by bus riders for reasons left unexplained by the Maui County Department of Transportation.

Public comments are due Aug. 22 for Maui County’s draft environmental assessment of its planned 4,900-foot extension of Līloa Drive, also known as the North-South Collector Road, from East Waipu‘ilani Road to Ka‘ono‘ulu Street in Kīhei.

The Mākena Mauka land plan covers approximately 1,041 acres and proposes 850 to 900 new homes in an area long identified for residential/resort residential uses but that is currently largely vacant.

Maui-based consulting firm Skog Rasmussen LLC has announced the addition of Kimberly Thayer as its newest partner.