Hawaii

Also Friday, reported back-to-back shark attacks led authorities to temporarily close beaches to swimmers in Walton County, on the Florida Panhandle.

The report details the fire department's response to the fires in Hawaii and the need for more resources while discussing improvements that can be made.

Six people are recovering after their flight from Los Angeles made a a hard landing on Maui.

In a daring rescue operation on January 5, Maui firefighters responded to a call along the Kahekili Highway in Hawaii, where a 71-year-old woman and her dog were trapped in an overturned vehicle hanging precariously on a cliff.

A tragic incident unfolded in Maui, Hawaii, as a 39-year-old man lost his life following a shark encounter at a beach on 93 Hana Highway in Paia.

Hawaii’s governor and mayor are welcoming tourists back to the west side of Maui months after August wildfires killed at least 100 people and destroyed more than 2,000 buildings.

Hundreds of people reported feeling minor earthquakes of similar intensity on Hawaii's Big Island and on the Olympic Peninsula northwest of Seattle, but no damage was reported.

Only an estimated 26 Pearl Harbor survivors are still alive, with the majority of them well over 100, according to an association dedicated to preserving their memory.

Months after a devastating wildfire leveled an entire town and killed at least 99 people, another blaze burning in a remote Hawaii rainforest is underscoring a new reality.

The 16 minutes of video showed officers evacuating a Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf shop at a supermarket on Front Street.

It’s been more than two months since wildfires broke out across Hawaii, and some families are just now able to begin the cleanup and rebuilding process.

The historic banyan tree, which was scorched during the wildfires in Lahaina in August, began to sprout new leaves this month.

The number of visitors arriving on Maui sank about 70% after the Aug. 8 fire, down to 2,000 a day, and only half of the available hotel rooms there are occupied.

At least 115 people died in the blaze that swept through Lahaina, the deadliest wildfire in the U.S. in more than a century.

Hawaiian Electric is facing a spate of new lawsuits that seek to hold it responsible for the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. The number of confirmed dead stands at 115, and the county expects that to rise.

Within a day of Maui County releasing 388 names of people unaccounted for following the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century, more than 100 of them or their relatives have come forward to say they’re safe.

Maui authorities say anywhere between 500 and 1,000 people remain unaccounted for two weeks after the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century destroyed the community of Lahaina.

Among the charred homes in a neighborhood reduced to ash from the Maui fires stands a single red-roofed home that appears virtually unscathed.