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Sobriety checkpoints in place this weekend

Beginning Friday and continuing through the weekend, Maui police will be conducting sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols at various locations to address impaired driving over the Super Bowl weekend. According to MPD, drivers can expect officers to take a zero-tolerance approach to ...

Police looking for driver in fatal hit-and-run on South Kihei Road

On Tuesday, a driver killed a 48-year-old pedestrian in a hit-and-run on South Kihei Road, about 100 feet north of Kauhaa Street, in Kihei. According to Maui police, it appears the man was walking north within the northbound lane on South Kihei Road when an unknown vehicle, possibly a silver ...

Cameron Center executive has high praise for Maui Economic Opportunity

Cesar Gaxiola was a part-time agricultural worker in Yuma, Arizona when he along with scores of other workers had an offer to work on the Valley Isle in the late 1980s with assistance through Maui Economic Opportunity. More than 30 years later, Gaxiola who took English and Hawaiian cultural ...

UB40’s Ali Campbell on his passion for spreading reggae around the world

With global record sales of over 70 million, British reggae band UB40 is so popular they have performed in over a third of the world’s nations. “There isn’t a corner in the world that doesn’t play UB40 music,” says founding lead singer Ali Campbell. “We had 40 Top 20 hits in the ...

Healthwise Maui: Experts answer your health-related questions

EDITOR'S NOTE: Physicians, providers and administrative staff who practice at Maui Health hospitals and clinics answer questions from the public in Healthwise Maui, which appears on Thursdays. Maui Health operates Maui Memorial Medical Center, Maui Memorial Medical Center Outpatient Clinic, ...