Maui has belatedly opened such an office. In April 2024, the county opened a privately run Recovery Permitting Center, which has helped speed things up. Even before the fires, wait times at the ...

A fire Saturday night in Wailea caused an estimated $475,000 in damage to a house and cottage in the Maui Meadows subdivision. The blaze was reported at 9:45 p.m. at a Malina Place property ...

Herman Andaya, Maui Emergency Management Agency administrator, defended not sounding the sirens during the fire. “We were afraid that people would have gone mauka,” he said, using the Hawaiian ...