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 ...

Maui’s vacation rental debate highlights a global dilemma: balancing tourism income with housing needs, as cities wrestle with affordability, community, and regulation. ByWill McGough, Contributor.

WAILUKU, Maui (KHON2) — It was a full house at Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee hearing today as members heard testimony on a controversial bill to phase out thousands of vacation ...

KAHULUI–The Maui Vacation Rental Association (MVRA) today released the results of a statewide poll of registered Hawai’i voters to gather opinions on proposals aiming to ban short-term rentals, such ...

HONOLULU — Lawmakers on Maui passed legislation Thursday aimed at eliminating a large percentage of the Hawaiian island’s vacation rentals to address a housing shortage exacerbated by the wildfire ...

MAUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - The plan to phase out thousands of vacation rentals on Maui may have several more hurdles to cross. Mayor Richard Bissen made history on Monday by signing Bill 9 into law that ...

Maui, one of the country’s most heavily visited island destinations, is preparing to dramatically shrink its short-term rental market after county leaders approved a law that will gradually eliminate ...

HONOLULU (Island News) -- Short-term vacation rentals on Maui could be facing a significant shift due to bills making their way now through the State Legislature. Vacation rental operators say, if ...

Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log in now to continue reading. Bissen and his county Planning Department support the new ...

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 ...

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 ...