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HONOLULU — A wildfire burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a new reality for the normally lush island state just a few months after a devastating blaze on a neighboring island leveled an entire town and killed at least 99 people. No one was injured and no homes burned in the latest fire, which scorched mountain ridges on Oahu, but the flames wiped out irreplaceable native

When Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez was asked about the early days of her investigation a month after historic fires ravaged Maui, she told reporters that she hoped state and county employees would “voluntarily participate” in the official review, but noted she’d resort to her subpoena power if she needed to. Now she has. Lopez on Monday issued subpoenas to three Maui agencies who have

Hawaii Attorney General Anne Lopez announced Monday that subpoenas have been served on three Maui agencies approximately four months after a series of wildfires devastated the island’s historic Lahaina district, displacing thousands and killing at least 100 people, according to the confirmed official death toll so far. The subpoenas served to the Maui Emergency Management Agency, the County of

Fire crews on the Hawaiian island of Maui were working late Wednesday to contain wind-whipped wildfires that had killed at least six people, burned much of a former royal capital and thrown the island into what the county government called “a time of crisis.” At least three wildfires have been raging on Maui since Tuesday, some of them so intense that at least a dozen people escaped them by