Tad Bartimus

Hana native Nakua Konohia-Lind, 24, the youngest captain of the storied voyaging vessel, manned the helm as it sailed in to East Maui.

As researchers look for ways to preserve and expand the varieties, a pair of Maui events are set to celebrate the ubiquitous food.

The Maui Humane Society partners with Alaska Airlines to fly dogs and cats to West Coast shelters where people are anxious to adopt them.

A woman gathers a group of volunteers to construct a facility at the Humane Society where people can say goodbye.

The rodent population on a Hana school campus was recently assessed by representatives of a company that produces the liquid contraceptive.

A Maui Ocean Center exhibit offers visitors magical views of the air and sea inhabitants of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands’ national marine monument.

Thanks primarily to volunteer efforts, more than 1,000 yellow rescue tubes have been installed on beaches on the Mainland and Hawaii, including 240 on Kauai.

Ocean drownings, which claimed 143 lives, are second only to suicide as the leading cause of fatal injuries in Maui County between 2006 and 2016.

Today, the famous author’s granddaughter faces similar struggles keeping the critters and climate at bay in remote Kipahulu.

As the caretaker of a remote church in Kipahulu, she sees many visitors pay their respects to the famous aviator buried there.