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The lenders’ policies and an obscure thicket of state and federal regulation and law determine which homeowners will get interest on their sizable insurance payouts.

Volunteers are working to jumpstart the effort by tending to surviving trees, planting seedlings and pushing the county to hire a second arborist.

The Attorney General’s much-anticipated report provides new insight into the fire response but does not address the cause of the fire.

The independent report makes 111 recommendations that could guide Maui and other isolated communities to prevent another Lahaina tragedy.

Scientists, state officials and the Army Corps of Engineers are finding the burn zone may not be as toxic as initially feared.

Maui County officials have said it will be at least several more months before they have a plan finalized.

Members emphasized the importance of protecting the county from another tragedy like Lahaina that took at least 101 lives and destroyed much of the town.

An official estimate of how many people have left Maui since the destructive wildfire may not be available until next year. But it’s a lot, by most accounts.

The County Council is looking for ways to up the budget, which is limited by the cost of the fire recovery.

Last month FEMA moved the Dadez family into a house with questionable water quality. Now the family is settled back into the government-sponsored condo they thought they had left for good.