The County Council moved the Bill 9 counterpart forward to receive a thorough vetting and recommendations on ways to change ...

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 ...

Signs asking people to respect locals and that "Lahaina is not for sale" are seen on the side of the Lahaina Bypass on Maui in December 2023. (Lindsey Wasson / Associated Press) Even before the ...

The Maui County Council’s Housing and Land Use Committee surely caught some observers by surprise last week by voting to move its long-debated, “get transient rentals out of residential neighborhoods” ...

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 ...

KAHULUI–The Maui Vacation Rental Association (MVRA) today released the results of a statewide poll of registered Hawai’i voters to gather opinions on proposals aiming to ban short-term rentals, such ...

LAHAINA, MAUI — On Thursday, the Maui County Council gave first approval to an ordinance that would ban 7,000 short term vacation rentals by 2030. The ostensible purpose is to provide housing for ...

A luxury apartment-hotel, a $4 million beach house and condominiums at a resort golf course don’t typically constitute workforce housing in Hawaii, but they are targets of a plan on Maui aimed at ...

A proposal to exempt 4,519 Maui short-term rentals from having to convert to long-term housing for Maui residents faces an ...