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November 15, 2025

Fire hazards meet housing crisis as Maui County clears out another homeless encampment

Advocates for houseless people say sweeps are not the long-term solution, with some residents kicked out of Maui Lani on Wednesday the same people who were booted out of Amala Place in Kahului during a previous sweep three months earlier.

November 13, 2025

Biggest water users in West Maui before fire were non-owner-occupied homes, report finds

The state water commission is trying to decide who should get permits to use water in West Maui, with 93 existing use permits and 48 new applications under review.

November 12, 2025

Displaced 77-year-old Lahaina fire survivor prepares to buy first home through Maui County program

George Dacuycuy and his grandson, 21, are among the first applicants to get the go-ahead from the Ho‘okumu Hou first-time homebuyers program.

November 10, 2025

Monday Morning MIL: Kamehameha Maui seeded No. 1 in Division II football; Baldwin seeded No. 5 in Division I

The Warriors are taking the “college bowl” approach, spending the four weeks before the state tournament studying film, lifting weights and getting healthy before they play a semifinal game in the state tournament on Nov. 22.

November 09, 2025

Where open land meets development, Maui residents urged to view risks like a firefighter

Residents can do the kind of prep work firefighters would to make their homes defensible, and they can do it long before the threat of fire arrives.

November 08, 2025

Maui’s go kart track no longer a ‘ghost town’ with first event in six years on Nov. 15

The Maui Go Karters Association will hold its first race day since 2019, a “time attack” event on Nov. 15 at the Superkarts USA-sanctioned track in Pu’unene. 

November 07, 2025

Hawaiʻi urges national transportation secretary to spare state from mandated flights cuts due to federal shutdown

Maui’s Kahului Airport has managed to deal with the federal government shutdown with minimal impacts, but that is about to change with the FAA mandating flights to be cut at major airports and with transportation employees about to lose a second paycheck.

November 05, 2025

Maui Nui community steps up to help federal workers, SNAP recipients affected by government shutdown

Food boxes, donated meals and loan payment pauses have been geared toward helping folks afford over a month’s worth of lost paychecks and food stamps.

November 03, 2025

Monday Morning MIL: Seabury Hall girls volleyball team falls to Kapa‘a in Division II state championship match

Saturday night’s second-place finish felt different than 2007, 2012 or 2014 when Seabury Hall was also the Division II state runner-up; the Spartans fought back from two sets down to force a fifth set that came down to the wire before bowing to Kapa’a of the Kauai Interscholastic Federation.

November 02, 2025

Maui County plans more wells, system upgrades to meet Upcountry’s water issues, growing demand

More than 94% of Maui County is under some kind of drought as Hawai’i comes off the third-driest season in the last 30 years.

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