Kihei News

South Maui residents worried about extra traffic and potential development blurring the boundary between Kihei and Kahului urged Maui County Council members Monday to resist the inclusion of several hundred acres of land in Puunene in the urban growth boundaries of the draft Maui Island Plan.

FIRST PHOTO: Three-year-old Caleb and 7-year-old Ashton Chargualaf of Kihei enjoy the Holy Ghost Feast on Saturday in Kula.

Loma Falekaono, who performs with the Tongan Choir at St. Theresa Church in Kihei, helps keep the beat going Saturday with a performance of three choir groups during the Holy Ghost Feast in Kula.

A Maui County spokesman says the man shot and killed by police pointed a pellet gun at officers that looked like a semi-automatic handgun.

Maui County Council members gave unanimous initial approval Thursday to a $549.9 million spending plan for fiscal 2013, although they brought back one-way fares and dropped $1 from a proposed $5 daily pass for public bus riders.

Family members said Marshall Langford didn't have a gun, as police alleged, and was reaching for a cellphone when he was fatally shot by a police officer in a Kihei parking lot Tuesday morning.

Makawao Elementary School 2nd-grader Waikaloa Lopez, 8, slides into a pool of water while celebrating his birthday with family and friends Saturday at Kamaole Beach Park III in Kihei.

Some witnesses reported hearing three gunshots Tuesday morning when a Maui police officer fatally shot a 31-year-old Wailuku man who allegedly pulled a handgun on the officer in the parking lot of the Mana Kai Maui resort, police said.

A man is in stable condition at a hospital in Canada after plunging at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt.

Hundreds of guests at a beachside Hawaii resort have been evacuated from the hotel after police shot and killed a man in the parking lot who was suspected of stealing a vehicle.

Hundreds of guests at a beachside Hawaii resort have been evacuated from the hotel after police shot and killed a man in the parking lot who was suspected of stealing a vehicle.Several hundred guests haven't been able to return to their rooms while police are on the scene, Winston Chinn, general manager of the Mana Kai Maui Resort in Maui, said ... (more)

Community groups and a South Maui resident have filed appeals with state and county agencies to put the brakes on two megamall shopping complexes planned in Kihei, mauka of the Piilani Highway-Kaonoulu Street intersection.

A man who drove a pickup truck toward people in a Kihei neighborhood last year has been acquitted of criminal charges based on reports that his mental capacity was substantially impaired at the time.

Maui County paramedics will hold open houses at their stations during Emergency Medical Services week from Sunday to May 26.

Maui police have opened an attempted murder case and are looking for a suspect after an argument between two men resulted in the stabbing of a 21-year-old Kihei resident at the Paradise Garden Condominium on Kihei Road.

The Maui Police Department said it is looking for a 19-year-old man suspected of stabbing another man in Kihei.

Lokelani Intermediate School 6th-grader Alaina Valdez, 11, takes a swing at a softball on a tee during physical education class Thursday in Kihei.

Even with motorists flashing their lights to warn oncoming vehicles, police traffic officers ticketed drivers traveling at speeds up to 74 miles an hour in the 45-mph zone on Mokulele Highway last week.

The county Liquor Control Adjudication Board disciplined four Maui businesses Thursday, two for serving alcohol to minors and two for having employees unlawfully drinking while on the job.

People watch as humpback whales venture close to shore around noon Sunday off Puamana Park in Lahaina.