The mid-August wildfires in Maui, which rendered much of Lahaina into charred ruins, displaced residents and left long-standing businesses devastated. Yet there’s a sign of hope amid the ashes. The ...

Last summer, a fire tore through the Hawaiian island of Maui, killing more than 100 people and razing thousands of buildings and homes. The disaster was one of the deadliest wildfires in American ...

The shaded Lahaina square where tourists once milled beneath the town’s famed banyan tree has become the domain of volunteer papaya, tomato and lilikoi sprouts. “We know what the birds are eating,” ...

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One of the first places Timothy Griffith Jr. went after the deadliest wildfire in more than a century ripped through Maui's west coast was Lahaina's historic banyan tree. The chief arborist for Maui ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The state is set to begin work to remove a fallen banyan tree that killed two women in Hilo. The Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) said the tree is ...

It was once filled with bright green leaves and sweeping branches that covered its visitors with shade. Now, Lahaina’s historic 150-year-old banyan tree has been charred by the wildfires and is dull ...

The beloved 150-year-old banyan tree in Lahaina is showing signs of life below ground, just over three weeks after a wildfire destroyed much of the town. Even though thousands of its leaves were ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - In the early hours of the wildfire devastation of Lahaina, if you talked with the residents, you could see the raw emotion and tears filling their eyes when people spoke of ...

HILO, Hawaii (Island News) – Hawaii Island police detectives have identified one of the two women whose remains were recovered within the debris of a downed banyan tree on Kilauea Avenue in Hilo on ...