A satellite image shows an overview of wildfires in Lahaina, Maui County, in Hawaii, August 9, 2023. Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters People dove into the water at Lahaina Harbor while trying to escape the smoke and encroaching flames on Tuesday. The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed later...
000 visitors were moved off the island Wednesday, with an estimated additional 14,500 to be moved off the island on Thursday, to either "return home or continue with their vacation elsewhere in Hawaii."
Aflash droughtin the region provided plenty of kindling, and Hurricane Dora brought strong winds to Maui as it passed roughly 500 miles (800 kilometers) south of the Hawaii island chain. Those winds downed at least 30 power poles in West Maui, and Hawaiian Electric had no procedure in...
toward the governing conservative Liberal party and the prime minister, Scott Morrison. As the bushfire crisis began to crescendo the first time,Morrison was holidaying in Hawaiibut amid public backlash, and following the deaths of two volunteer firefighters, cut his trip short by a day. ...
CORRECTIONS | A legislative proposal in Hawaii to phase out the state’s use of private prisons on the U.S. mainland was “quickly quashed” last week. The state started sending inmates to the mainland in 1995 as a temporary action to ease overcrowding. “But it...