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Local leaders and residents share what they believe is in store for Lahaina following the destructive Maui wildfires that scorched the town in 2023.
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Everything to be said about Lahaina — the physical place, if not its soul — is now past tense, she said. In a community of 13,000, 67 are confirmed dead with the search continuing as of Friday.
Lahaina, Lāhainā (Hawaiian: Lahaina, Hawaiian: [ləˈhɐjnə], / l ə ˈ h aɪ n ə /, old var. Lāhainā) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. On the northwest coast of the island of Maui , it encompasses Lahaina town and the Kaanapali and Kapalua beach resorts.
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That same year, the first whaling ships arrived, beginning the community's rise in economic importance. Lahaina eclipsed Oahu as a preferred whaling port between 1840 and 1855, because of its better deep-water anchorage. When Kamehameha III ascended to the Hawaiian throne in 1825, he made Lahaina his capital, preferring it to the busier ...
Module:Location map/data/United States Lahaina is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Lahaina, Hawaii. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Feb. 16—A bill to create an elected community board backed by a state agency to help rebuild Lahaina after the town was leveled by wildfire advanced Thursday at the state Legislature. A bill to ...