Browsing: Hawaii
A tour company helicopter crashed off the Hawaiian island of Kauai, police said, killing one person and leaving two missing…
Maui mayor wants to restrict vacation rentals as locals suffer chronic housing shortage made worse by Lahaina fire—but economist sees ‘economic crash and burn’
Alicia Humiston bought her condo in Lahaina after she visited Maui and fell for its rainforests, lava fields and the…
Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson donate more than $10m they pledged for Maui wildfire survivors as 8,100 people get checks from People’s Fund
Lana Vierra misses the swing set at her Lahaina home, which was reduced to ashes in the wildfires that swept through her…
Wildfire that caused $5.5 billion in damage ripped through Maui at a rate of a mile per 90 minutes
As unpredictable wildfires roared across Maui last August, the head of the emergency management agency dragged his heels about returning to the…
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff really doesn’t want people to know he bought 600 acres of land in Hawaii worth $100 million
Billionaire CEO Marc Benioff has been aggressively acquiring parcels of land in Hawaii via various shell companies since the pandemic,…
Mark Zuckerberg says his daughter ‘thought that I was a cattle rancher’ for a while thanks to his unusual hobby in Hawaii
Mark Zuckerberg’s job can be hard to describe to a child. But one of his favorite hobbies these days—producing beef—is…
‘Nobody’s heard anything at all’: Jeff Bezos promised $100 million after Maui wildfire but locals are mystified about where it’s going
Jeff Bezos has a habit of issuing splashy philanthropic promises while offering few details. The latest: a $100 million pledge…
Maui’s tourists mean well. But they’re traumatizing locals by asking about the devastating wildfire: ‘Unless you’re a therapist, I don’t want to talk to you about it’
The restaurant where Katie Austin was a server burned in the wildfire that devastated Hawaii’s historic town of Lahaina this summer. Two…










