Kula News

Hitching Dobbin to the sleigh and driving the family into the snowy woods to chop down a Christmas tree is not an option on Maui, but there are many kinds of trees to be had and many ways to get them - including cutting down an invasive pine and dragging it home for free.

Patricia Mulhern was wondering where the dainty Christmas Trees were at the Nimitz Highway Kmart yesterday morning.

ULUPALAKUA Ulupalakua Ranch owner Pardee Erdman has seen a lot of changes in and around his family's 18,000-acre operation on Hale-akala's rolling green leeward slopes.

As Parker passed along the islands on his way to China, he decided to jump overboard and try his life as a marksman on the Big Island, thus beginning a 200-year cowboy tradition that has lasted in Hawaii since the rule of King Kamehameha I. Word of Parker's ranching abilities got around to Hawaii's King Kamehameha I, and the king asked Parker to ...

A 37-year-old pregnant Kula woman, who had been held on $1 million bail in a case that involves the largest seizure of processed marijuana in the county's history, had her bail reduced to $250,000 on Friday.

Stanford Carr says his company, Stanford Carr Development, tries "to do our part" to help each of the islands on which it does business.

'Being an infantry man, I want a lot of support. War is a waste.' - Clarence Okamura, Korean War veteran KAHULUI Maui veterans expressed differing opinions Wednesday about what President Barack Obama should do about the war in Afghanistan, with some saying he should end the war and bring troops home, and others saying he should strengthen support ...

The people you saw marking the streets and sidewalks with chalk in KA hei and Kahului on Saturday, Oct.

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.

A little more than $3 million is being used to pay for various improvements at state hospitals on four islands.

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

Like all great revolutions, Le Fooding was born from a rebel group's passionate support of a cause.

Hawaii needs national health reform like other states but "remains a very efficient place" for affordable, high-quality care, says Dr.

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

Fire crews from Kula and Makawao responded to a fire on Kini Drive in Ulupalakua last week and were joined by a Hazmat, Tanker and Rescue crew from the Kahului fire station.

Police were continuing to look for a suspect Monday in the murder of a 45-year-old Kaupo man who was shot to death Sunday morning in Kaupo.

Monday, Oct. 26 Holy Ghost Church, Kula * Noon-4 p.m. St. Ann Church, Waihee * 5-9 p.m. Maria Lanakila Church, Lahaina Tuesday, Oct.

We went because: We participated in the inaugural Maui Photo Festival. I ran the gear and bookstore and Will sharpened his digital photo skills.

WAILUKU, Maui - Officials have identified the woman whose remains were found following an early morning fire in Ulupalakua last Saturday as Cheryl Lynn Ledbetter, 49, of Olympia, Wash.

A woman was killed and a man suffered severe burns when an old plantation-style house in Ulupalakua burned to the ground early Saturday.