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Second event in the musical series at Kalama Park this evening 8/22/25

8/22/25 #kihei As these Friday evening presentations have been scheduled over  month ago, we respectively note that this same  evening in Wailuku is the candlelight service for Maui Officer O which was tragically shot and killed in the line of duty https://mauinow.com/2025/08/21/candlelight-vigil-set-for-fallen-maui-officer-suzanne-o-aug-22-at-wailuku-police-station/ https://gokihei.org/government/sunset-tunes-at-kalama-beach-park-in-kihei mm  

Transportation infrastructure in Kihei; We cannot seem to keep So Kihei Rd {SKR} open and can’t get Pi’ikea Rd opened.

  8-18-25 #kihei So we start the work week with Pi'ikea Rd still totally closed, and while SKR is open, construction limits a stretch to single lane alternate flow and as this continuous daily action for an indefinite period. Tomorrow the North end will be totally closed all day.   Meanwhile SKR continues with the daily (M-F} alternate single lane traffic flow in the area of Kulanihako'i Road                 mmmmmm...

South Kihei Road (SKR) in No. Kihei reopened (for now)

8/15/25  #kihei Although signage remained on SKR at intersections of Ohukai and Uwapo Thursday (8/14)   afternoon, officially it was totally opened, a week after the latest closure. But the road repairs are not pau, as the County plans to close it again next week. "South Kīhei Road will again be temporarily closed from North Kīhei Road to Ohukai Road from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 19, while crews complete paving of the remainder of the road. Traffic will be detoured onto...

South Kihei Road (SKR) remains closed between Ohukai and No Kihei Rd

  8/11/25 #kihei       On Monday morning a County crew continued performing the various needed tasks to mitigate the damage caused by kai flooding along SKR last week. No word from the County when this portion of SKR will reopen. Some wonder about the day when it will not reopen.    

Administration reverts from one way back to two ways on SKR

According to the article in  this morning's (7/27/13) Maui News, after announcing on 7/23/13 that a short segment of South Kihei Road (SKR) would run only northbound, due to the weakened  century old box culvert crossing near the Whale Sanctuary and Ka'ono'ulu until...

LUC begins hearings of R & T Park request for change

Site # 2 Base Yard used to store windturbine parts before trucking thur Wailea to Ukuhaname Site # 3 (back beyond the golf course) Carol Tor,,,, After a "site visit" to those sections of the Research and Technology Park by the State Land Use Commission (LUC) this...

County Planning Commission approves change for KHS

This morning (7/23/13) Maui County Planning Commission approved the zoning change and amending the Kihei Makena Community Plan for the site of the DOE Kihei High School mauka of the Pi'ilani Highway. near Kulanihakoi....

Segment of SKR will be one way (north) very soon! CANCELLED!!

UPDATE- 7/28/13   COUNTY ADMINISTRATION DECIDES THERE IS A BETTER WAY!- CHANGED PLAN ANNOUNCED.- Department of Public Works (DPW) Director David Goode announced today (7/23/13) that while the plans to replace the box culvert" bridge" on South Kihei Road (SKR) proceed,...

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...