Maui County

A new one-year rule went into effect Wednesday to help protect Molokaʻi from the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle by restricting the import of soil and landscaping materials known to harbor the insect. HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol has more.

Maui community members are calling for changes to homeless encampment sweeps. Maui County lawmakers this week shelved Bill 111, which proposed a more "empathetic" approach to relocating homeless individuals in encampments on county land.

A Maui County Community Needs Assessment shows residents' access to and priorities for the county's Department of Human Concerns.

A contentious bill that would phase out about half of Maui’s vacation rentals took a big step toward passage Thursday. The committee’s vote came after eight meetings of public hearings and deliberations. HPR's Catherine Cluett Pactol has the latest.

The Conversation's DW Gibson spoke to Jenna Spellman about her work as the supervisor of the “dune crews," restoring and maintaining shorelines on Maui.

What's next for the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority?; Maui County conservationists work to restore the island's sand dunes with native plants

Maui County's Committee on Housing and Land Use is in the midst of listening to nearly 200 testifiers signed up to voice their opinions on a proposal that would phase out about 7,000 transient vacation rentals. HPR's Catherine Cluett-Pactol has more.

Fifty trucks will spend five months hauling Lahaina wildfire debris to a landfill in the center of Maui starting next Monday. Maui County says there's enough debris to fill five football fields five stories high.

After uncertainty regarding federal funding cuts, the Head Start program has received the federal funds needed to open this school year in nine locations across Maui County, operated by Maui Economic Opportunity.

On Tuesday the council voted on a final version of Bill 41, which details a county budget that’s about $46 million bigger than what Mayor Richard Bissen initially proposed in March.