WAILEA — After co-starring in the breakout hit “Crazy Rich Asians,” actress Awkwafina will accept the 2019 Maui Film Festival Shining Star Award and will premiere her new film, “The Farewell,” on June 15, festival founder and director Barry Rivers announced Wednesday. “We are ...
WAILUKU — A Wailuku man was sentenced to a 10-year prison term Tuesday for sexually assaulting a girl who was watching his children. Theo Pedro, 35, had been out drinking before returning home and sexually assaulting the girl in multiple ways on June 24, 2018, said Deputy Prosecutor Kristin ...
The Maui News Maui police and fire crews restarted their suspended search for missing Haiku woman Amanda Eller on Tuesday, after receiving a 911 call from an area above the Makawao Forest Reserve about possible additional information about the case, Maui police said Wednesday afternoon. ...
First photo: Maui Humane Society animal care attendant Lexi Hughes checks on groggy pup Baxter after his surgery Wednesday afternoon at the Puunene facility. Hughes estimated the heeler mix to be about six months old, and said he was neutered in preparation for going to a short-term foster ...
The Maui News Maui County’s Department of Environmental Management will be indefinitely suspending future abandoned vehicle auctions after the last auction on May 31 as the county was spending more money on the auctions than generating revenue, the county said on Monday. In fiscal year ...
The Maui News A former Ki-Hana Nursery bookkeeper pleaded guilty Wednesday to wire fraud for stealing more than $1.3 million from the Kihei business. Thelma Pascua-Suyat of Kahului entered the plea and was found guilty when she appeared in U.S. District Court in Honolulu. According to a ...
Mayor Michael Victorino and his wife, Joycelyn, left Wednesday for an 11-day goodwill and economic development trip to Japan and Korea. “This is an opportunity to promote Maui as a destination for visitors from Japan and Korea as well as improve business relationships and promote goodwill ...
The Maui County Office on Aging at the J. Walter Cameron Center will be closed today to celebrate Maui County’s 51st annual Outstanding Older American Male and Female of Maui County. This year’s nominees are: Carolee “Aunty Doll” Aricayos, Louise Corpuz, Arleen Gerbig, George Kahamoku ...
KAHULUI — Hailed as the largest single public works project on Maui and the first of its kind in the state, the Kahului Airport Consolidated Rent-A-Car facility was celebrated by state leaders Tuesday ahead of its public opening today. The new $340 million, multilevel CONRAC houses all ...
After years of cutting back the mayor’s budgets, the Maui County Council is bringing an $823.6 million budget to the table, $43 million higher than Mayor Michael Victorino’s proposal and a touch above the $820 million proposal that former Mayor Alan Arakawa called his “most aggressive ...
The Maui News WAILUKU — A Lahaina woman who faced a prison term after being arrested with more than 1 ounce of methamphetamine was instead placed on 10 years’ probation with a two-year jail term, with the opportunity to be released from jail to enter long-term drug treatment. “You ...
Looking like it could be blown off its perch by a strong gust of trade winds, a gutted Ford F-150 sits precariously on four cinder blocks Tuesday morning on Kahului’s Pakaula Street. The stripped truck was midway between the Lowe’s and Target stores. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs is seeking the community’s input for the development of the agency’s new strategic plan through an online survey and a series of statewide meetings, with the first one on Maui on Monday. The process is to develop the strategic plan for 2020 and beyond. The ...
An additional application period has been opened for the Preschool Open Doors program, which provides subsidies to eligible families to help pay for preschool tuition. To qualify for the program, children must be eligible to enter kindergarten in the 2020-21 school year (for those born ...
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary and the U.S. Coast Guard are launching National Safe Boating Week with events from 8:30 a.m to 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Kihei Boat Ramp. Boat owners can bring their vessels to the ramp for a free Recreational Vessel Safety Exam by the Coast Guard Auxiliary ...
The Maui News Free child car seat and booster seat inspections will be done from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot of Maui Marketplace near Pier 1 on Dairy Road in Kahului. Those interested in having child car seats checked to see whether they’re properly installed should ...
• Film festival. The website for the Made in Hawaii Film Festival on Hawaii island is mihff.org. A “Maui Connections” column published Tuesday on Page A3 contained the incorrect web address. The Maui News apologizes for the error. * The Maui News wants to promptly correct errors in ...
First photo: Seabury Hall parent Kelly Cannon dishes up a fresh salad made with donated Upcountry ingredients Saturday morning during the 49th annual Seabury Hall Craft Fair. The annual fundraiser for the school’s scholarship fund is run by an army of volunteer parents, students, staff and ...
MAKAWAO — If anybody can handle an extended period of time in the dark and cold of the Makawao Forest, it’s Amanda Eller, friends and family of the missing hiker say. “She is mentally, spiritually and physically incredibly strong,” Eller’s friend and spokeswoman, Sarah Haynes, said ...
Plaintiffs in the long-standing injection well case against Maui County revised their settlement offer last week after meeting with Mayor Michael Victorino and county attorneys on the case that is currently headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. If settled, the case would end a seven-year legal ...