Judge to Ask Hawaii Supreme Court About Barriers to $4B Wildfire Settlement September 4, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher The Hawaii Supreme Court will be asked to weigh in on an issue that threatens to thwart a $4 billion...
Tropical Storm Hone Sweeps Past Hawaii; Rain Amounts Ease Wildfire Fears August 27, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Julie Walker Hone passed south of Hawaii and weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm on Sunday, dumping so much rain...
Judge Bars Insurers From Going After Defendants Who Agreed to $4B Maui Wildfire Settlement August 15, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher A Maui judge’s ruling resolves a critical roadblock to finalizing a $4 billion wildfire settlement: Insurance companies who have paid...
‘We’re Going to Survive and It’s Going to Come Back’: A Year After Maui Wildfire, Survivors Press on August 7, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and Audrey McAvoy They have combed the ashes for mementos, worried about where they would sleep, questioned their faith and tried to find...
Maui Officials Highlight Steps Toward Rebuilding a Year After Deadly Wildfire July 1, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Nearly a year after wind-whipped flames raced through Kim Ball’s Hawaii community, the empty lot where his house once stood...
Hawaii Outlines Efforts to Prevent Another Devastating Wildfire Ahead of a Dry Season May 21, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher As Maui continues to recover from the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, Hawaii officials are looking at...
Lawyers Handling Lawsuits Over Maui Wildfires to Get Investigation Documents May 10, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher A judge on Friday forced the Hawaii attorney general’s office to turn over to lawyers involved in the hundreds of...
Maui Sues Cell Carriers Over Failure of Wildfire Warning Alerts During Outage May 8, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Had emergency responders known about widespread cellphone outages during the height of last summer’s deadly Maui wildfires, they would have...
Highlights of Reports on Deadly 2023 Hawaii Wildfire April 22, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Rebecca Boone and Claudia Lauer More than half a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Maui...
Subpoenas on Agencies and Officials Delay Release of Key Report into Deadly Hawaii Wildfire March 27, 2024 By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Hawaii’s attorney general blamed a delay of the release of a key report into a deadly Maui wildfire on county...