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Maui Walking Tours celebrates 150th free walking tour with special Kīhei cleanup event

7/2/2015 #kihei #volunteer #mauiwalkingtours From Maui Now 5/28/2025: To celebrate its 150th free walking tour, Maui Walking Tours LLC will host a special community cleanup event in Kīhei on Saturday, July 12, 2025. Residents and visitors are invited to participate in the one-hour event, which will focus on removing trash from sidewalks, beaches and parks in central Kīhei. Since its launch in early 2024, Maui Walking Tours has provided complimentary, research-driven walking tours through the...

Different reason for flooding closing So Kihei Rd (SKR) in No Kihei this week

6/26/25 #kihei Earlier this week SKR was closed for several hours between Uwapo and No Kihei Rd (NKR). While the increasingly  frequent mudfloods of stormwater raging down the mountain are the usual reason, this time the water came up onto the roadway from the Kai's king tides. For some history on the months long road closure to install this stream gulch crossing, SEE  https://gokihei.org/development-project-review/south-kihei-road-to-be-closed-again   Much of the community...

Completed Skilled Health Facility in Lipoa ( R & T Park) has not opened for years due to no one available to staff it?

6/24/25 #kihei At the Maui Planning Commission meeting this morning, Mr.  Andre Hurst of Regency Namakua  offered that in his communication with the current owner, Ohana Pacific Health, due to a severe shortage of qualified potential employees, they remain unable to open this facility.  There seems to be no estimation on when this matter would be rectified . The facility has been complete for years, but remains vacant.                ...

Will they construct and OPEN a new hotel in LIPOA (R & T Park)??

6/20/25   #kihei For most of the past decade we have watched a "mystery" unfold at the Maui Research & Technology Park (renamed Līpoa). Before there was a brewery and a high school, right in that same area, a sign announced: "Regency Maui Nursing and Rehabilitation Center". It remained there for years, but then construction began at 1347 Ninau St, and a series of interconnected structures were built. Landscaping was completed, a roadway encircled the buildings. parking...

Tsunami Evacuation Zones in South Maui Expanded in 2013

UPDATE: 6/30/13. If you missed this when we originally announced it back on May 25, there are large maps of all areas in today's Maui News. Maps in telephone books out of date.  How close do you live to the ocean? Are you in an evacuation zone if the sirens sound?...

Oneloa Park (Makena) parking

Does this sound like a good thing to you?  The State Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) announced  a parking lot repair project beginning at Makena State Park on Monday, July 8, 2013.  The $63,977 project was awarded to Vares Contracting and is slated for...

LUC Decisions affect Kihei

At the State Land Use Commission(LUC) meeting  this morning (6/27/13) at the Haynes Room at the MACC in Kahului, the LUC addressed two item of concern to our community, the Kihei High School (KHS) and the Ka'ono'ulu Ranch property under proposed development by Sarofim...

Oneloa Coalition Meeting

While many just call it "Big Beach and Little Beach,"  or Makena State park, it is Oneloa State Park, a natural jewel in South Maui. The Oneloa Coalition was organized back in 2009 to "ensure the preservation of historical sites and natural ecology at this State...

State Legislators advise KCA membership

Last evening (6/18/13)  another full house at the Kihei Charter School listened to and questioned our three area State Legislators, Sen. Roz Baker, South -side representative Kaniela Ing and North Kihei-Maalaea Representative Angus McKelvey on a myriad of topics and...

Baby Step in walkable, bikeable South Maui?

UPDATE 6/18/13)  Here's the word from DPW on our inquiry: according to Ray Oshiro, "we are currently replacing the aged and deteriorated wooden barricades and the concrete barriers with guardrails.  We will be installing an access gate for our maintenance purposes. ...

Makani acts while man deliberates in North Kihei

UPDATE 6/15/13. When KCA met with Sarofim Realty Advisers on June 4 and communicated that a strong segment of our community felt the black "wall" dust construction fence should be removed from Pi'ilani mauka while the entire proposed project was being considered, they...