Jennifer Sinco Kelleher

In this screengrab taken from a video posted on Oliver Widger’s Instagram account on Saturday, May 3, 2025, Widger talks to the camera somewhere in the Pacific Ocean as he and his cat, Phoenix, sail from Oregon to Hawaii. (Oliver Widger via AP)

Travel & Leisure

Tire company manager who quit to sail to Hawaii becomes social media hero to people tired of earning $150,000 and feeling like ‘you’re just making ends meet’

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press

An aerial view of destroyed and cleared properties with vegetation regrowth on year after the Lahaina wildfire

Hawaii court blocks insurers’ claims, salvaging $4 billion Maui wildfire settlement

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press

Burned cars and palm trees after wildfires hit Maui

A $4 billion settlement for victims of the Maui wildfires is in limbo a year and a half later, as insurance companies say they’ve been unfairly villainized

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press

FILE – A general view shows the aftermath of a devastating wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Aug. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

$4 billion settlement for Hawaii’s Lahaina wildfire victims is tied up. Here’s what to know

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press

Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (Janet Klingbeil via AP)

Accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione advocated for others to get back surgery he had, social media posts show

By Lea Skene, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, and others

FILE – A general view shows the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, on Aug. 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Maui fire that killed 102 in Lahaina erupted from earlier blaze firefighters thought they put out, investigation finds

By Rebecca Boone, Alanna Durkin Richer, and others

Estella Fontanilla, a housekeeper on strike from the Hilton Hawaiian Village, leads fellow hotel workers in strike chants on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024, in Honolulu. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)

2,000 workers at Hawaii’s biggest hotel go on strike

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press

Wally Amos

Famous Amos founder Wally Amos, a high-school dropout turned cookie mogul, dies at 88

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press

A portrait of a young woman in a tropical setting

Stunning tourist paradise marred by fatal plane crashes

By Mark Thiessen, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, and others

Gene Milne, an impact zone property owner, is pictured during an interview on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Milne lost his newly built home in last year’s wildfire and is the first property owner to start the rebuilding process since his previous home was not yet fully completed and had open permits. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)

First Lahaina home starts rebuilding nearly a year after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century destroyed thousands of Maui homes and killed 102

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press

FILE – A general view shows the aftermath of a wildfire in Lahaina, Hawaii, Monday, Aug. 21, 2023. The wildfires devastated parts of the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this month. Maui County is suing major cellular carriers for failing to properly inform police of widespread service outages during the height of last summer’s deadly wildfire. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Maui is suing cell carriers because its Lahaina wildfire warning alerts were never received and it says the companies didn’t warn that service was out

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher and The Associated Press

Anne Lopez

Wildfire that caused $5.5 billion in damage ripped through Maui at a rate of a mile per 90 minutes

By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Rebecca Boone, and others

Ventura, CA – December 28: Men watch from a balcony in Faria Beach as huge waves crash on the shore Thursday, Dec. 28, 2023 in Ventura, CA. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

‘Gnarly’ waves up to 40-feet tall are pummeling West Coast beaches and causing flooding: ‘They’re huge’

By John Antczak, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, and others

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)

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 Green

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