Maui County Council members heard another full day of testimony Wednesday for and against a proposal to convert 6, 100 vacation rentals in Maui “apartment districts ” into long-term housing, but ...

WAILUKU, Maui (KHON2) — It was a full house at Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee hearing today as members heard testimony on a controversial bill to phase out thousands of vacation ...

On Maui, tensions are running high as residents once again debate a historic bill to phase out over 6,000 transient vacation rentals, or TVRs, in an effort to reclaim long-term housing for Hawaii ...

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, ...

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

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 that destroyed ...

A controversial bill to prohibit short-term vacation rental use in about 6,100 condominiums passed a first vote on Thursday. Pictured is the entrance to Honua Kai Resort & Spa in Lahaina, which has ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — About half of the Maui condominiums that were heading toward losing vacation rentals could be spared. A county council group was tasked with reviewing the impact of Bill 9, which ...

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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 ...