Pukalani News

About 8,000 owners of agricultural lands received letters from the county in September, asking them to verify that they qualify for the lower agricultural tax assessment.

Board of Education Member Mary Cochran of Maui said she will vote to approve schools' requests to restore classroom time lost in Furlough Fridays.

Pacific Lutheran remained unbeaten in Northwest Conference volleyball action with a 25-23, 25-23, 25-20 win over visiting Whitworth on Saturday evening in Olson Auditorium.

Family members of the late Anthony T. Kahoohanohano could not contain their excitement Wednesday when President Barack Obama signed a bill that included a provision to award the Medal of Honor to Kahoohanohano who died fighting in the Korean War in 1951.

Although crime is down in South Maui, Maui County Police Chief Gary Yabuta said that the community has grown so much that the demand for police service there is now greater than in West Maui.

Firefighters responded to four brush fires Saturday, one intentionally set and two others raising suspicion by authorities.

Father Damien de Veuster's canonization as a saint with four others Sunday drew thousands to St.

With less than 24 hours before Blessed Damien is to be canonized, about a dozen Maui residents are attending daily Masses and touring the sights of Rome.

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FIRST PHOTO: Spencer Birch, 7, of Pukalani, hauls out his selection under the watchful eye of a scarecrow Tuesday morning at Kula Country Farms.

A Borders book drive hauled in more than 900 books valued at more than $9,000 for Pukalani Elementary School.

Whitworth University gained its first Northwest Conference volleyball win of the season in emphatic fashion, sweeping 19th-ranked University of Puget Sound 25-18, 25-17, 25-19 on Saturday night in the Whitworth Fieldhouse.

Police documented decreases in burglaries, thefts, vehicle thefts and car break-ins as part of an overall one-third drop in crime reported in Upcountry communities during the past year.

A bank on Maui became a drive through Friday after a truck smashed into the front entrance.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Whitworth University dropped its third straight Northwest Conference volleyball match on Friday night, losing 25-14, 25-15, 25-21 at Lewis & Clark College.

Mayor Charmaine Tavares encouraged citizens of West Maui to attend tonight's Budget Community Meeting at Lahaina Civic Center, and urged residents in other areas of Maui County to attend the remaining meetings to present their priorities for the upcoming 2010-2011 fiscal year County budget.

A Maui judge has ordered a 19-year-old man who pleaded no contest to starting a restaurant fire with a flicked cigarette to stop smoking for a year.

A man whose flicked cigarette started a fire that burned the roof of a Pukalani restaurant was ordered not to use tobacco for the next year as part of his sentence Friday.

Maui Police Chief Gary Yabuta and Deputy Chief Clayton Tom will be hosting town meetings throughout the various communities in Maui County.

I am writing to you to see how the problem of obtaining water for my property in Pukalani can be solved.