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A panel discussion on opening day of the Native Hawaiian Convention on Maui explored ways to provide affordable housing by purchasing properties burned in the Aug. 8 wildfire.

Maui police said the latest victim was an elderly woman who died in early September.

Dallas-based real estate developer Paul Cheng has already received $18 million in county subsidies for his Pulelehua housing development.

A recent report from a House working group highlights the lack of working fire alarm systems and other safety precautions in some public schools.

The current need is most pressing in Lahaina, but the rest of the state is also suffering from a lack of dignified housing.

The utility has been replacing copper wires with aluminum ones for years.

A state budget memo highlights trade-offs the public will make to support the state’s response to the Aug. 8 fires.

With most of the town’s residents uprooted by the wildfire, a brutal housing market has made it hard for those ready to move out of hotel rooms.

Kula residents readily acknowledge their losses are nowhere near the level experienced by Lahaina wildfire survivors but they share many of the same frustrations.

Two members of a task force specializing in forensic analysis will be assigned to the new detail that will reexamine dozens of unsolved cases.