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FIRST PHOTO: A firefighter hoses down flames in a Kihei field between Hope Chapel and Lokelani Intermediate School along Piilani Highway on Wednesday afternoon.

Consolidated Resorts Inc. appeared headed for bankruptcy on Tuesday, and employees of its activity desk subsidiary Lahaina Ticket Co.

After being hired by an independent Maui insurance company in 2005, Amy Pohai Waikiki was treated like family.

On the fiftieth anniversary of our fiftieth state, Hanya Yanagihara returns to the islands of her youth and finds them unchanged by time or the spotlight-Hawaii's ravishing landscapes, egalitarian ethos, and singular way of life are just as she remembers The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went ...

WAILUKU - The Maui County Council yesterday voted unanimously in favor of a bill that would ban alcohol from Honokowai Beach Park in West Maui.

A former Maui police officer arrested last year for drunken driving had his license suspended for 90 days and is being ordered to pay $637 in fines.

MAALAEA - A brushfire that burned an estimated 80 acres and destroyed a house was completely contained shortly before 5:30 this morning, Maui County officials said.

A 41-year-old Kihei woman who forged a check and tried to cash it was sentenced to five years' probation, with credit for the 71 days she already had spent in jail.

A former Maui police officer, who was on administrative leave from the department when he was arrested last year for driving drunk, had his license suspended for 90 days and was ordered Thursday to pay $637 in fines and fees.

A year after its approval, the controversial Honua'ula housing and golf course development in South Maui is moving slowly with a required environmental impact statement and the hiring of several consultants and consulting firms.

WAILUKU - A contractor doing work on Haleakala Ranch land damaged fiber-optic lines yesterday morning, disrupting emergency 911 calls, phone and Internet service for Maui residents, county offices, major resort hotels and businesses.

Three Maui County teen-agers and the anti-tobacco movement they're leading in Hawaii were tapped for a national award recognizing their campaign against cigarettes and tobacco advertising aimed at them and their peers.

About 30 Maui-ans got a sneak preview Wednesday of the launching of an international organization to collect research information about the risks of climate variability and get it into the hands of policymakers.

The Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i's REAL: Hawai'i Youth Movement Exposing the Tobacco Industry, HI Program has been named the 2009 Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' Tobacco Control Youth Advocate Group of the Year.

Students at Montessori Hale O Keiki will be scoping Maui's beaches and diving into the ocean as they spend a new, five-year $250,000 grant.

After bulldozers cut firebreaks to keep a 400-acre brush fire from spreading to nearby houses, firefighters worked for a second day Monday to try to extinguish the blaze in north Kihei.

Businessman Ray Ennis, co-founder of Stella Blues in Kihei, died on May 28 in Kihei.

Three men have been charged with causing thousands of dollars in damage through graffiti that defaced neighborhoods in Central and South Maui in 2006 and 2007.

A 23-year-old Kihei man is in critical condition at Maui Memorial Medical Center after he was struck while driving a moped Tuesday night.