Entrepreneur John G. Varel remembers growing up in a family of six children with his great-uncle and grandfather on a 120-acre farm in a small Illinois town 35 miles from St. Louis. At the farm, they grew corn, soybeans and wheat to pay the rent and to feed the cows, chickens and pigs they ...
Construction has begun on Kehalani Apartments, a 35-unit affordable rental housing project in Wailuku. Developer Dowling Company, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen and other project partners marked the start of construction with a groundbreaking ceremony Monday. “When a local family ...
Maui County plans to open an interim safe parking site on county property in Puunene in about six weeks, officials announced Wednesday. The temporary site will be established on a county-owned parcel off Pulehu Road while work continues to find a permanent location. County officials said ...
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State officials are seeking public comment on a draft management plan for the Puaʻahala section of the Molokai State Forest Reserve, where eight endangered plant species have been documented and one endangered wildlife species could be present. The plan from the Department of Land and ...
After hearing residents’ testimony for two hours about traffic-calming devices in Haiku, Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen assured them that devices found to have been installed improperly would be removed. According to county officials, 31 speed bumps and speed tables approved under the ...
