ANDREW VLIET / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER Ariel Ah Hee hugs guest following the blessing of their rebuilt home in Lahaina on Friday. 1 /3 ANDREW VLIET / SPECIAL TO THE STAR-ADVERTISER Ariel Ah Hee ...
Kahahane had been coordinating a comprehensive review of the Lahaina wildfire on behalf of the AG’s office. She is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools Maui and the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa William ...
The Hawai‘i Department of Transportation advises that hauling for the state’s Ka Laʻi Ola housing site in Lahaina will take place nightly on Friday, Nov. 1 and Saturday, Nov. 2 beginning at ...
The Lahaina-led nonprofit organization, Kaibigan ng Lahaina, is set to host a free “Lahaina Palengke Night” with business and community fellowship from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Princess Nahi ...
No criminal charges will result from the state investigation into the wildfires that leveled Lahaina, killed 102 people and destroyed Maui’s visitor industry, according to state Attorney General ...
The Aug. 8, 2023, wildfire that killed 102 people and destroyed the historic town of Lahaina began when reenergized power lines ignited overgrown vegetation. Burned trees are seen in Lahaina.
At a briefing Tuesday with the Attorney General, state House members learned why no one was prosecuted after the Lahaina disaster, and also why the governor has no plan yet for a prevention program.
By 1867, only six years after the formation of Pioneer Mill—Lahaina’s first sugar plantation—famine ravaged this once bountiful region. A commission investigated the famine’s causes and concluded that ...
Paele Kiakona is a community advocate with Lahaina Strong and an environmentalist from Lahaina. Growing up on Maui, he has been deeply connected to the land and sea and passionate about ...
Kimo Falconer is a fifth-generation owner of the iconic Pioneer Inn property in Lahaina, built in 1901. He testified in favor of Bill 105. “We would love to be able to rebuild it the way it was,” he ...
Destroyed buildings include (clockwise from right): King Kamehameha III Elementary School, Old Lahaina Courthouse, Pioneer Inn, Lahaina Public Library, Baldwin Home Museum, Wharf Cinema Center and ...
Destroyed buildings include (clockwise from right): King Kamehameha III Elementary School, Old Lahaina Courthouse, Pioneer Inn, Lahaina Public Library, Baldwin Home Museum, Wharf Cinema Center and ...