Alicia Humiston bought her condo in Lahaina after she visited Maui and fell for its rainforests, lava fields and the whales that gather offshore. She travels there about three times a year and rents ...

LAHAINA, Hawaii (Island News) -- As the call continues to convert short-term rental units into long-term homes for Maui fire survivors, some state lawmakers are thinking of a long-term housing ...

The Kapalua Golf Villas in West Maui includes short-term vacation rentals. Regarding affordable housing: Maui County stifled development before the August 2023 fire. Developers pleaded, too, that ...

HONOLULU — A single mother of two, Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in ...

Gov. Josh Green wants to house any wildfire evacuee who specifically seeks to move back to West Maui following the Aug. 8 wildfires — including those currently ineligible for federal housing ...

WAILUKU, Hawai'i (Island News) -- Dozens of disappointed testifiers were turned away on Tuesday morning from a meeting with the Maui Planning Commission to discuss the contentious, proposed phase-out ...

HONOLULU — Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in August and reduced Chadwick’s ...

LAHAINA, HawaiiLAHAINA, Hawaii — A group of Lahaina wildfire survivors is vowing to camp on a popular resort beach until the mayor uses his emergency powers to shut down unpermitted vacation rentals ...

FILE - Naldo Valentine, who lost his home to the Lahaina wildfire, puts up a light as darkness falls at a housing protest on Kaanapali Beach Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. A group of ...

Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen is proposing a bill that would offer tax exemptions for short-term rental owners who house residents displaced by the Aug. 8 wildfires. Bissen submitted the bill to ...

Owners and managers of Maui short-term vacation rentals have argued during two days of public hearings that local residents cannot afford the rent if 6, 100 units are converted into long-term housing, ...

Nov. 23—The availability of short-term vacation rentals in West Maui was 49.1 % lower in October compared with the year before, with Maui struggling to find long-term housing for survivors of the Aug.