the Maui News

A Hawaii family has won a place with the Guinness World Records for the world’s heaviest avocado.

More than 600 people on the Hawaii island of Maui were in shelters after a large brush fire prompted thousands of evacuations and diverted some flights in the region, officials said Thursday. The blaze had reached an estimated 3,000 acres and was not contained as of Thursday night, NBC News reported, citing comments from a news conference held by the...

Amanda Eller, a Maryland native who had been missing for 17 days in a Hawaii forest, was found alive. News4’s Aimee Cho has more.

A woman who went missing more than two weeks ago after going on a hike in Hawaii has been found alive, multiple outlets report.

The parents of a Hawaii woman reported missing after she went hiking have offered a $10,000 reward. The Maui News reported Sunday that 35-year-old Amanda Eller of Haiku was last seen Wednesday on a trail in the Makawao Forest Reserve on Maui. Eller’s parents offered the reward for information leading to her safe return prior to their scheduled arrival on...

A judge on the Hawaiian island of Maui has handed down an unorthodox sentence to a man who pleaded no contest to violating a protection order preventing him from contacting his ex-girlfriend. Judge Rhonda Loo ordered Daren Young on Friday to write 144 compliments about his ex-girlfriend, in response to the 144 “nasty” text messages and calls that he is...