Paramedics with Maui Emergency Medical Services cared for the victims before transporting them to local hospitals. Maui ...

Hawaii's Supreme Court ruled Monday that insurance companies can't bring their own legal actions against those blamed for ... days before the one-year anniversary of the Aug. 8, 2023, fire ...

There are more than 1,100 Maui fire survivor households in FEMA’s direct lease housing, a program in which FEMA pays property owners to house survivors. Under federal law, FEMA must begin charging ...

In an unanimous decision issued just four days after justices heard arguments, the state's highest court determined insurance companies cannot block settlement proceedings and sent the issue back to ...

A panel advising Gov. Josh Green is urging the state Legislature to appropriate almost $2 billion over the next five years to help reduce and respond to future natural disaster damage in Hawaii ...

Sumithra Balraj is moving back to her fire-ravaged Lahaina condominium before completing reconstruction after getting a letter ... 8, 2023, Maui wildfires. “What FEMA is going to start charging ...

MAUI, Hawai'i (Island News) -- Emergency management officials on Maui released their own After-Action Report on ... didn’t lose his own home to the fire, he did lose an elder in his family ...

A year and a half ago, the Maui wildfire ... be resolved before the settlement can be finalized, including whether insurance companies who are not part of the settlement can go after those ...

Hewett, who took over MEMA in January 2024, was a battalion chief with the Maui Department of Fire ... changed in the aftermath of the 2018 fires before the blazes of August 2023.

Veteran firefighters who responded to the 2023 blazes in Maui, Hawaii, had greater levels of “forever chemicals” in their blood in comparison to those of shorter-term recruits, new research ...

Immediately after the August 2023 fires displaced 12,000 people ... the average shelter stay nearly doubled. The Maui shelter has reached capacity before, “but we always had a pressure valve ...

A settlement was announced last summer, but insurance companies held out, insisting that they should have the right to go after ... before the one-year anniversary of the Aug. 8, 2023, fire ...