Costs are up 60% just this year, and it is unclear what will happen to the homes after 5 years. But families are grateful to be settling into their own homes.

A new report has uncovered where the thousands of displaced Maui residents moved to after the deadliest fire in a century ripped through their town.

KAHULUI (HawaiiNewsNow) - Lahaina fire survivor Shannon Ii is slowly moving into her new temporary home at Ka Lai Ola. “I don’t want to live in a modular home honestly,” Ii said. She lost everything in the wildfires, and like so many other survivors, she is still rebuilding her new life.

Paired with its bureau in Honolulu, the company’s additional location will bolster its position as the state’s fifth-largest general contractor.

Certain terrible truths about the deadly Lahaina fire on Aug. 8, 2023, became evident immediately after the disaster, including these facts: Hours after the fire began, Maui’s mayor was unaware that it was uncontrolled or that it threatened all of Lahaina;

Commercial redevelopment has not kicked into high gear in Lahaina; however, some recent progress has been made.

The final phase of the state Department of the Attorney General’s investigation of the Aug. 8, 2023, Lahaina wildfire, which killed 102 people, recommends hiring a state fire marshal and actions government must take to protect communities from wildfires.

Devastating fires in Lahaina, Hawaii and Paradise, California share a crucial root cause with the LA blazes. It's a clue to our fire future.

As deadly wildfires ravaged Los Angeles and destroyed thousands of structures in January 2025, an image of a red-roofed house surrounded by scorched rubble was shared in social media posts that falsely claimed it survived the blazes because its owner is Muslim and the Koran was inside.

One thing was immediately clear in the aftermath of the devastating fires that burned Lahaina to the ground in August 2023: building back this beautiful, historic, multicultural town would be a long and difficult journey.

Maui County Council members voted unanimously Friday on a bill that could preserve parts of a historic structure ravaged by the 2023 Lahaina wildfire before the site is cleared. Council member Tamara Paltin said the historic Spring House in Lahaina,

Thousands had to find new roofs over their head after the fires in 2023, but data from the Department of Taxation shows the vast majority stayed on Maui.