Haiku News

The county Planning Department will hold a meeting on Tuesday, July 21, to allow any developers, agencies or organizations the opportunity to give brief testimony on their specific project or recommendations to the Directed Growth Strategy element of the Maui Island Plan.

The county Department of Water Supply declared a drought watch Thursday for Upcountry, requesting residents and businesses from Haiku to Kanaio to voluntarily reduce water consumption by 5 percent.

The 18-year-old Paia man who was critically injured in a crash in Haiku on Thursday has died, Maui police said.

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WAILUKU, Hawaii - The Maui Planning Commission has approved the first application under a new bed-and-breakfast ordinance.

The public is invited to participate in meetings concerning a National Park Service special use permit for the proposed Advanced Technology Solar Telescope on Haleakala on Maui.

Madeline Smith of Haiku joins hands in prayer with her daughter, Veronica Smith , and her granddaughter, Desiree Smith, 14, before Memorial Day services Monday morning in the Makawao Veterans Cemetery.

The following maximum temperatures were recorded across the state of Hawaii Sunday afternoon: Lihue, Kauai - 82 Honolulu, Oahu - 85 Kaneohe, Oahu - 81 Kahului, Maui - 85 Hilo, Hawaii - 84 Kailua-kona - 84 Air Temperatures ranged between these warmest and coolest spots near sea level - and on the highest mountainsat 5 a.m. Monday morning : ...

Roxie Speak, 2, of Kula laughs with delight as she keeps her balance with friend Sheldon Glend, also 2, of Kihei on Monday afternoon at Kalakupua Playground at the 4th Marine Division Memorial Park in Haiku.

If sugar was king on Maui, pineapple was the crown prince. Fields of pineapple covered Haiku, surrounded Pukalani, ran up the mountain in lower Kula and occupied thousands of acres in West Maui.

Richard Okuda Jr. of Wailuku receives congratulations from six-time champion Denis Valente of Haiku after completing the finals of the Slim's Power Tools 16th Annual He-Man Competition on Saturday afternoon in Kahului.

Zachary Pezzillo , 15, of Haiku, Maui, was selected as the Tourette Syndrome Association National Scholarship winner.

W. S. Merwin won his second Pulitzer Prize for poetry on Monday for "The Shadow of Sirius," a collection that the Pulitzer board described in its citation as "luminous" and "often tender" - and that Merwin called a happy accident.

The grand reopening hoopla at the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel was not as large as the Royal Hawaiian's last month, but it lasted twice as long, taking up the whole of last weekend.

Students from "Island Pacific Academy" in Kapolei are doing what they can to go green and preserve it for future generations.

As Hawaii Superferry's Alakai left Kahului Harbor for what likely could be the last time Thursday morning, a lone tug sprayed two streams of water into the air in a traditional seafaring aloha.

For those of your readers who might sometimes be concerned about their own health and about Consumer Protection in general, the Hawaii House of Representatives has moved forward an extraordinary Resolution asking the FDA to rescind the approval for Aspartame.

A Haiku fisherman was skeptical but remained optimistic Wednesday that a bill to set bag limits on Maui for parrotfish and goatfish would be kept alive at the Legislature this session.

The De Lima Ohana Kelly "Kelly Boy" De Lima opens a new chapter in his musical career with the first album recorded by all five members of the De Lima family: Kelly Boy; his wife, Leilani; and their children, ...

Almost three years after the county budgeted $10.5 million for a new fire station in Kaunakakai, ground still hasn't been broken on the project.