LAHAINA, MAUI — On Thursday, the Maui County Council gave first approval to an ordinance that would ban 7,000 short term vacation rentals by 2030. The ostensible purpose is to provide housing for ...

HONOLULU — Lawmakers on Maui passed legislation Thursday aimed at eliminating a large percentage of the Hawaiian island’s vacation rentals to address a housing shortage exacerbated by the wildfire ...

The Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee surely caught some observers by surprise last week by voting to move its long-debated, “get transient rentals out of residential neighborhoods” ...

Feb. 26—Gov. Josh Green had threatened to ban short-term rentals if owners of 3, 000 Maui vacation rentals did not provide stable housing by Friday. A part-time Maui couple's decision to convert their ...

HONOLULU — Amy Chadwick spent years scrimping and saving as a single mother of two to buy a house in the town of Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. But after a devastating fire leveled Lahaina in ...

WAILUKU >> A Maui fire marshal ordered officials to thin the crowds inside a Maui County Planning Commission hearing Tuesday to review a proposal from Maui Mayor Richard Bissen to phase out thousands ...

HONOLULU — An unprecedented proposal from Maui’s mayor to phase out vacation rentals would alleviate a severe housing shortage aggravated by the 2023 wildfires but would also shrink the economy, ...