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  • A person looks at packages of macadamia nuts at a store on Friday, April 26, 2024, in Honolulu. For decades, tourists to Hawaii have brought home gift boxes of the islands’ famous chocolate-covered macadamia nuts for friends and family. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)Retail

    Hawaii is famous for its macadamia nuts. Now lawmakers want brands to tell shoppers where they’re not actually from the islands

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • Amy Chadwick poses at her current home with her pets, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Satellite Beach, Fla. Chadwick, a victim of the fires in Hawaii, moved to Florida where she could stretch her homeowners insurance dollars while she waits for her lot to be cleared and for permission to rebuild. (AP Photo/John Raoux)Politics

    The Lahaina fire leveled their home. Now the cheapest rental they can find is $10,000 a month

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • FILE – People walk by a tent with a “Lahaina Strong” flag, Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, at Whalers Village on Kaanapali Beach in Lahaina, Hawaii, as a group of wildfire survivors camps on the resort beach to protest and raise awareness for better long-term housing options for those displaced. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)Environment

    Hawaii lawmakers target Maui vacation rentals after Lahaina wildfire supercharges housing shortage and exorbitant prices

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • HawaiiFinance

    Blame Hawaii bureaucrats for the high cost of housing, local professors find in economic study

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • Josh GreenPolitics

    Hawaii governor struggles with tourist-driven housing market: ‘I don’t want to be rude, but I do want people to realize that that market should be for our local families’

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • Alaska AirlinesLeadership

    Alaska Airlines grounds entire fleet of Boeing 737-9 Max after window blows out in midair, forcing emergency landing

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • LAHAINA, HAWAII – OCTOBER 09: Volunteers from Samaritan’s Purse help a daughter search for family items in the rubble of her mother’s wildfire destroyed home on October 09, 2023 in Lahaina, Hawaii. Volunteers from Samaritan’s Purse helped displaced residents and family members search for meaningful personal belongings at several destroyed homes in the area. The wind-whipped wildfire on August 8th killed at least 98 people while displacing thousands more and destroying over 2,000 buildings in the historic town, most of which were homes. A phased reopening of tourist resort areas in west Maui began October 8th on the two-month anniversary of the deadliest wildfire in modern U.S. history. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)Lifestyle

    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’

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • Jordan Ruidas, back, one of the organizers with Lahaina Strong, an organization focusing on helping families affected by Lahaina wildfire, poses for a portrait with her children, La'iku, left, and Waiaulia in front of the Fishing for Housing protest camp in Lahaina, HawaiiEnvironment

    Maui is trying to strike the balance of rebuilding affordable homes and bringing back tourists—but visitors should be wary of aggravating wildfire trauma

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • Hawaii Governor Josh GreenEnvironment

    Hawaii governor threatens to use ‘hammer’ to convert 3,000 vacation rentals to housing for newly homeless Maui wildfire survivors

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • An Army helicopter carrying water to douse a wildfire burning east of Mililani, Hawaii,Environment

    Hawaii wildfire on Oahu’s wet side destroys irreplaceable rainforest: ‘Pretty moonscape-looking out there’

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • Tiffany TeruyaEnvironment

    A Maui single mom was lucky to find a ‘tiny, tiny cottage’ for double what she was paying before her subsidized unit burnt to a crisp

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua, is viewed Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The resort will re-open Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023, as the first phase for tourism returning to West Maui. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)Environment

    Tourism is returning in West Maui near wildfire-ravaged Lahaina as hotels and timeshare properties open for business

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press
  • Search and recovery team members check charred buildings and cars in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, on August 18, 2023. At least 111 people are known to have died in what was the deadliest wildfire in the US in over a century. The final toll is expected to be considerably higher. (Photo by Yuki IWAMURA / AFP) (Photo by YUKI IWAMURA/AFP via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Maui implores tourists to return to paradise and save the island from economic catastrophe after devastating wildfires

    By Audrey McAvoy, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, and others
  • Josh GreenEnvironment

    Hawaii’s governor is furious as disaster capitalists try to buy stricken Maui real estate on the cheap after historic wildfire

    By Audrey McAvoy, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, and others
  • Richy Palalay, who was born and raise in the Hawaii town of Lahaina on the island of Maui, shows his “Lahaina Grown” tattoo at an evacuation shelter in Wailuku, Hawaii on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. There’s concern that any homes rebuilt after a wildfire that tore through Lahaina will be targeted not at homegrown residents who give the town its spirit and identity but instead affluent outsiders seeking a tropical haven. That would turbo-charge what is already one of Hawaii’s gravest and biggest challenges: the exodus and of Native Hawaiian and local-born residents who can no longer afford to live in their homeland. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)Finance

    A born-and-raised Hawaiian Gen Zer’s restaurant just went up in flames. He fears ‘this charred land’ will just get sold to ‘big land developers’

    By Audrey McAvoy and The Associated Press