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November 30, 2025

Limited commercial boat operations to return to Lahaina Harbor for first time since destructive wildfire of 2023

Starting Dec. 15, loading and unloading activities will be allowed on a permitted basis. Some companies haven’t been operating since the fire damaged their vessel.

November 29, 2025

Historic backfield duo leads Kamehameha Maui to second-straight Division II state football championship

To cap the night, Zedekaiah Campbell scored his 22nd touchdown of the season on a 16-yard run that put him over the 1,000-yard mark for rushing on the season and broke the school record that he set last year.

November 27, 2025

Chad Baker-Mazara is first player to win two Maui Invitational championships after leading USC to the crown at Lahaina Civic Center

Baker-Mazara, whose 23-point performance led the Southern California Trojans to an 88-75 win over the Arizona State Sun Devils, also won the tournament last year with Auburn before he transferred to USC.

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.

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