Maui Fire Lawsuit Payouts Are Near, but Few Will Break Even May 4, 2026 By Stewart Yerton Leslie Clark isn’t counting on money from the Maui wildfire settlement to help rebuild her family home near Front Street...
Safer Buildings Vs More Housing: How New Building Codes May Impact Hawaii November 22, 2024 By Thomas Heaton A month after wildfires ravaged Maui in August 2023, Gov. Josh Green issued an emergency proclamation to postpone the adoption...
Hawaii Attorney General Probe into Deadly Wildfire Won’t Lead to Criminal Charges November 4, 2024 An investigation by the Hawaii attorney general’s office into the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, which destroyed...
Maui Wildfire Survivors Will Get An Additional Year of Housing Help From FEMA October 18, 2024 Survivors of last year’s deadly wildfire that decimated a historic Maui town will receive an additional year of housing assistance...
Critical Locked Gate Overlooked in Investigation of Maui Fire Evacuation October 10, 2024 The state attorney general’s latest report on the deadly 2023 Lahaina wildfire flagged various locked gates that blocked people trying...
Maui Fire Caused by Broken Power Lines, County and US Find October 3, 2024 By Mark Chediak The fire that razed the historic Maui town of Lahaina last year was caused when Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. re-energized...
Hawaii Probe Finds No Single Factor Led to Maui Wildfire Losses September 16, 2024 By Mark Chediak No single factor led a fire in the seaside Hawaiian town of Lahaina last year to rage out of control...
Toxic Debris from Hawaii Wildfire Could Fill 5 Football Fields 5 Stories Deep September 10, 2024 By Claire Rush and Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the...
Hawaiian Electric Raises Going Concern Doubts on Uncertainties Over Wildfire Settlement Financing August 26, 2024 By Sourasis Bose Utility firm Hawaiian Electric raised going concern doubts on Friday after disclosing that it did not have a financing plan...
Judge Bars Insurers From Going After Defendants Who Agreed to $4B Maui Wildfire Settlement August 15, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher A Maui judge’s ruling resolves a critical roadblock to finalizing a $4 billion wildfire settlement: Insurance companies who have paid...