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November 25, 2025

Maui Invitational faces challenges from Las Vegas college basketball tournament offering big money

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. 

November 24, 2025

Monday Morning MIL: Baseball clinics for Maui youths feature major leaguers, University of Hawaiʻi players

More than 150 youth players were at the event Sunday at Maehara Stadium, one day after the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa baseball team held a youth clinic at Hitter’s Paradise Indoor Training Facility in Kahului that featured 120 youth players.

November 23, 2025

What’s the health toll of 2023 Maui wildfires on firefighters? Long-term study aims to find out

Scientists took another round of samples from local firefighters last month, and while early results show changes in their blood, only time and more data about their exposure that day will tell how it affects their health.

November 23, 2025

Defending champion Kamehameha Schools Maui rolls into Division II state championship game for fourth time in five years

Together, one of the most prolific running back tandems in the state led the Warriors to a 37-18 win over sister school Kamehameha Hawai’i in a semifinal of the First Hawaiian Bank/HHSAA Division II tournament on Saturday night.

November 22, 2025

Host Chaminade set to play in Southwest Maui Invitational in Lahaina for first time since 2019

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.

November 19, 2025

As frustrated West Maui community waits for state water permit approvals, dispute over golf course irrigation grows

The water commission has yet to approve any of the more than 140 permit applications for water use in West Maui that were filed two years ago shortly before the Lahaina fire.

November 18, 2025

Earthjustice asks water commission to stop Kapalua golf courses from using drinking water for irrigation 

The environmental law firm claims the golf courses unlawfully used millions of gallons of potable water to irrigate their greens, and that the state water commission chair knew about it.

November 17, 2025

Monday Morning MIL: From Oregon to Hawai‘i, ‘brothers’ cheer each other on in special football weekend

Iapani “Poncho” Laloulu and Fa’anu Ma’o were always close growing up, Laloulu on O’ahu and Ma’o on Maui, but they grew closer as Ma’o’s mother, Failagi Laloulu Ma’o, battled breast cancer that first hit her in 2017 when Fa’anu was 9 years old and Poncho was 13.

November 16, 2025

Nation’s first communal dialysis home in Hāna needs repairs to keep operating at full capacity

Before Hale Pōmaika‘i Community Dialysis Center opened 16 years ago in Hāna, patients had to travel four-hours roundtrip to Central Maui three times a week for the life-saving treatments.

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.

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