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After a landscape-changing announcement on Monday morning of a $50 million NIL agreement between the Big 12 Conference and the Players Era Festival in Las Vegas, Dr. Tom Buning, Chaminade director of athletics, acknowledged they may have to consider the same to keep the Southwest Maui Invitational college basketball tournament that Chaminade hosts annually at the Lahaina Civic Center in the mix of top early-season multi-team event tournament destinations. 

This yearʻs field for the Southwest Maui Invitation also includes No. 25 North Carolina State, Seton Hall, Southern California, Boise State, Arizona State and Texas.

A Texas man died as the result of a single-vehicle collision on Mākena Road in South Maui on Thursday evening. Police say the involvement of speed was considered a factor.

Public comments are due Jan. 17 on Elon Musk’s plans for his SpaceX rockets to splash down in a much wider area, including Hawaiian waters and 240 nautical miles east of the Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary.

A 67-year-old Texas man was pulled from waters at Puʻu Kekaʻa or “Black Rock” in Kāʻanapali after he was found unresponsive on the ocean floor on Monday morning.

The giant-killers from St. Louis Heights on Oahu were at it again. This time Chaminade knocked off Texas, 86-73, before a prime-time televised audience opposite Monday Night Football at the Lahaina Civic Center.

Mark Glick has been appointed administrator of the State Energy Office of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism (DBEDT) which manages millions of dollars in statewide energy programs.

Authorities in Hawaii apprehended a man wanted on an out of state arrest warrant for alleged sex crimes against a juvenile.

The WAC could have a new look as early as this week, with multiple media reports indicating the impending additions of three new members — Texas-San Antonio, Texas State and Denver.

Maui’s mobile workforce just got faster with the launch of Oceanic Time Warner Cable’s 4G network in January. A celebration surrounding the product launch was held at the Wailea Marriott’s MALA restaurant, giving clients and businesses a chance to explore the new technology. [flashvideo file=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRlwudErpQs /] “The world of high speed is quickly becoming two […]

Governor Linda Lingle has appointed Anita Seyer Wong as the deputy to the chair of the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (DHHL). Wong has been with DHHL since 2007 handling complex assignments related to restructuring of development financing, legal coordination of housing contracts, as well as overseeing project managers for the department’s Land Development Division. […]