Five visitors were hurt Tuesday after a tree fell onto their vehicle along the Hana Highway near mile marker 9, according to the Maui Fire Department. Firefighters responded at 2:33 p.m. and found a tree had fallen onto a passing vehicle with five occupants. One person suffered a head ...
Firefighters put out a brush fire Tuesday evening along the Piilani Highway at Piikea Avenue in Kihei. According to the Maui Fire Department, firefighters responded at 5:33 p.m. and found a brush fire burning on the east side of the highway. Crews deployed hose lines and brought the blaze ...
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The ae‘o, or Hawaiian stilt, has taken a major step toward recovery after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reclassified the bird from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The change, announced this month and published in the Federal Register, follows more than five ...
A jury deliberated for less than two hours Thursday before convicting Roberto Omar Morales Andrade, 49, of Lahaina on 16 counts of sexual assault involving a child. According to a news release, the verdict followed a two-week trial before Second Circuit Judge Kirsten M. Hamman. The jury found Morales Andrade guilty of eight counts of first-degree sexual assault and eight counts of third-degree sexual assault. Evidence presented at trial showed Morales Andrade used his position of trust and access to isolate and repeatedly abuse the child beginning in 2014, when the child was 9 years ...
Maui County firefighters and Ocean Safety personnel rescued a hiker in Kipahulu and a stand-up paddleboarder off North Kihei over the weekend. On Friday, multiple units responded at 3:33 p.m. after a 62-year-old woman fell while hiking on the Pipiwai Trail in Kipahulu. Rescue 10 firefighters aboard Air 1 located the woman and her hiking party, packaged her for transport and hoisted her into the helicopter. She was transferred to Emergency Medical Services personnel before being handed off to a Reach 48 air ambulance for transport to Maui Memorial Medical Center for further ...
