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The Attorney General's much-anticipated report provides new insight into the fire response but does not address the cause of the fire.

A new report shows that the head of Maui's emergency management agency dragged his heels about returning to the island as wildfires ripped across the island last August

A deadly combination of high wind, power outages, communication failures and a lack of leadership from the Maui Emergency Management Agency created chaos during the Aug. 8 wildfires, according to the first phase of findings from a state investigation.

Hawaii's attorney general released part one of its three-part investigation into the 2023 Hawaiian wildfires a day after the Maui Fire Department released its after-action report.

Hawaiian Electric did not send a representative to check on fallen power equipment until hours after fire officials alerted the utility, the report says.

Officials are still trying to determine exactly what went wrong when the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century burned through a historic Hawaii town.

LAHAINA (Island News)-- As 2023 comes to a close, the people of Maui are still awaiting the completion of Phase 1 of the Lahaina Fire Investigation.

A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens has been transferred into American custody and returned to the United States, where he was booked into a federal detention center.

A Navy officer jailed in Japan over a car crash that killed two Japanese citizens has been transferred into American custody and was returned Thursday to the United States, where he was booked into a federal detention center. Lt. Ridge Alkonis had been serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the negligent driving…

Lt. Ridge Alkonis had been serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to the negligent driving deaths of a woman and her son-in-law in May 2021.