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July 05, 2025

St. Anthony School banks on new sports academy, ʻŌlelo Hawai‘i program to boost plummeting enrollment

The blueprint to attract students to St. Anthony, the alma mater of Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen and Major League Baseball two-time champion Shane Victorino, has been developed over the past year and is being implemented for K-12 for the 2025-26 school year.

July 04, 2025

Tale of two temporary projects: In state’s housing, Maui fire survivors have 5 years; in FEMA’s, residents face uncertain timeline

There are two temporary housing projects in Lahaina for wildfire survivors: Kilohana, for FEMA eligible families; and Ka La’i Ola, a state-run project for non-FEMA eligible families.

July 02, 2025

Maui Planning Commission considers allowing hotel in Kīhei tech park

Property owner says a business hotel could serve the workers who come to the park, which was created in the late 1980s to help ease Maui’s economic reliance on tourism and big ag.

June 30, 2025

Monday Morning Maui Sports: At 13, Micah Diaz is already a two-time national boxing champion

Micah Diaz, 13, has been boxing for less than three years, but veteran coach Nante Manangan knew he “very special” the first time he stopped by to try boxing practice in the facility that Manangan has in his backyard and garage in North Kīhei. Manangan said that Micah Diaz is the first two-time national champion boxer ever from Maui.

June 28, 2025

Maui Surfer Girls founder Dustin Tester celebrates 25 years with first book: ‘Saltwater Sisterhood’

Seabury Hall graduate Dustin Tester got help with her surfing school over the years from two former classmates.

June 27, 2025

As Central Maui Landfill grows, a private company touts turning county’s waste into renewable natural gas

Maui currently doesn’t have a gasification facility, and there’s a reason — the island doesn’t have the demand or the extensive pipeline system to support it. But the project developer thinks natural gas will catch on once it is built.

June 24, 2025

End of an era: Alexander & Baldwin transfers full ownership of East Maui Irrigation to Mahi Pono

The EMI system, which was used to divert water from East Maui streams to the sugar plantation for nearly 150 years, is one of the last physical — and one of the most controversial — reminders of the sugar plantation and A&B’s outsize influence on Maui.

June 23, 2025

Monday Morning Maui Sports: Wehiwa Aloy wins Golden Spikes Award as best amateur baseball player in nation

Wehiwa Aloy became the first Mauian to win the Golden Spikes Award, and he’s also likely to become the first from the Valley isle to be selected in the first round of the MLB draft.

June 22, 2025

Long before last week’s 330-acre blaze, Kahikinui community spent years preparing for fires

Kahikinui, along with Waiohuli and Launiupoko, were the first communities on Maui to earn Firewise USA recognition in 2016 — and now there are 34 with another 16 going through the process.

June 21, 2025

Los Angeles Rams first trip to Maui in 1972 spurred a generation of fans, including Mayor Bissen

Rodney Yap, Pat McCall and Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen were all at a youth football camp put on by the Los Angeles Rams 53 years ago, becoming part of a generation of Rams fans on Maui.

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