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kcerizo@mauinews.com Plans for a fire station in Haiku are back on the table after stalling for more than a decade. Maui County is mulling four potential sites near areas with the highest concentration of calls. — The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo After stalling for more than a decade, plans for a fire station in Haiku are back on the table, though with a potentially higher price tag than when it was first proposed. Four sites are being considered within a 5-mile radius of Haiku’s hi...

kcerizo@mauinews.com The Marriott Maui Ocean Club in Kaanapali is pictured in August. A bill that proposes placing a moratorium on hotel building permits garnered early support from residents at a Maui County Council meeting on Friday, though others said it was the last thing Maui needed with the local economy reeling from the pandemic. — The Maui News / COLLEEN UECHI photo A proposal to place a moratorium on hotel building permits is garnering early support from residents who say it will he...

kcerizo@mauinews.com The Westin Maui Resort & Spa, Kaanapali, is pictured in early October, shortly before the reopening of tourism in Hawaii. As tensions over tourism continue to rise, the bill before the Maui County Council is proposing a moratorium on building permits for hotels in West and South Maui until community plan updates for both areas are finished. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo A Maui County Council bill is proposing to halt building permits for West and South Maui hotel de...

Matthew Tittor WAILUKU — A man who said he was going to stay on a beach when he arrived on Maui on a flight from Los Angeles agreed to return to the Mainland after he was arrested Tuesday for violating COVID-19 public health emergency rules. Matthew Tittor, 42, was sentenced to a two-day jail term, which he had already served, after he pleaded no contest to the charge Wednesday afternoon in Wailuku District Court. He appeared in court by videoconference from the Maui Police Department cellblo...