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The Maui Emergency Management Agency will be evaluated again after a state report already documented communication breakdowns.

Free Market Ventures had offered to drill one or more deep water wells and sell the water to the county for 30 years for use by Upcountry residents.

Fire and emergency personnel are putting new protocols in place for responding to wildfires, but are also warning that people need to be better prepared, too.

Access to water is still in flux, but the Maui modular home housing project now has county approval to open 16 of 88 units.

Emboldened by state lawmakers’ action this session, Bissen has proposed county legislation to phase out certain vacation units to open up more long-term housing.

The county claims it sent text message alerts with evacuation information, but many of those texts were never received.

FEMA plans to stop reimbursing the state for emergency housing in hotels after May 10 but the governor expects several hundred likely will be staying there through at least July 1.

Shoreline setbacks or a retreat from the water so far aren’t getting much traction under state and county planning efforts.

Voters burned out of Lahaina can still cast ballots as if they were still living there.

The county plans to open a recovery permitting center on Monday.