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Mayor Richard Bissen plans to provide updates to federal partners and Hawaii’s two senators on the county’s recovery 10 months after the fires.

The Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement issued a report highlighting a range of problems experienced by people who lived through last summer’s deadly wildfires.

The spending plan for next fiscal year focuses largely on housing and the ongoing recovery from the Aug. 8 fires.

After 10 months living in a resort condominium paid for by the federal government, Mario Siatris just wants to get back to his land.

Bettina Robinson’s 900-square-foot home has been sitting empty since she joined the federal program in January.

More money for affordable rentals, emergency management and firefighters is on tap for 2025.

After nine months living in Maui hotel rooms funded by the federal government, U‘i Kahue-Cabanting no longer has a dedicated place to live. But she and her business partner have a plan.

Angus McKelvey says the state government needs to do more to prevent a massive sell-off of land.

The property owners are now scrambling to figure out what to do with their units which sat empty for months at the expense of taxpayers.

The Legislature, then Maui County, took big steps toward phasing out short-term rentals to increase the housing stock for residents, 13,000 of whom were displaced by the Aug. 8 fires. Work continued on two group housing sites. The County Council ironed out most of the overall budget. And cleanup continued in Lahaina.