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A state agency is exploring ways to expedite replacement of Maui low-income rental housing to offset losses from the deadly Aug. 8 Lahaina wildfire. ... 112-unit Lahaina Surf, a pair of 20-unit ...
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 ...
FILE - KAILUA-KONA, HAWAII- JANUARY 18: Large waves from the Pacific Ocean crash against lava rock at Wawaloli Beach Park during a high surf advisory on January 18, 2024 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
The alaia's roots span back a thousand years. [3] Lala is the Hawaiian word describing the action of riding an alaia surfboard. Lala is a word found in the Hawaiian dictionary meaning ‘the controlled slide in the curl when surfing on a board.' [4] Princess Kaʻiulani's alaia board, measuring 7ft 4in long, is preserved at the Bishop Museum.
Hookipa Beach, surfing on Maui, Hawaii. Like many locations on the Maui and Oahu North Shore, Ho'okipa Beach is occasionally a tourist attraction in the winter time because of spectacularly large surf. In the afternoon on 15 December 2004, for example, tourists visited the beach to see waves as large as 30 feet (9.1 m) pound the shore ...
Maui (center right, with Molokaʻi, Lānaʻi, and Kahoʻolawe to its left) as seen from the International Space Station [2] Maui (/ ˈ m aʊ i / ⓘ; Hawaiian: ) [3] is the second largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, at 727.2 square miles (1,883 km 2). It is the 17th-largest in the United States. [4]
An analysis by the University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization found a relatively low 7.5% of units there were vacation rentals as of February 2023. Lahaina neighborhoods spared by the ...
On 30 March 2012, Rowley was a finalist in the Billabong XXL Big Wave Awards 2011/2012, in the Ride of the Year category with his rides at Jaws Peahi in Maui, Hawaii on 30 January 2012, placing him 4th place in the world of elite big wave surfers and meriting the respect of the big wave surfing community. [33]