They have combed the ashes for mementos, worried about where they would sleep, questioned their faith and tried to find a way to grieve amid the great, unsettling devastation.
Seattle Pokémon delegation heads to World Championships in Hawaii
Filipino American Brian Myers, owner of Tabletop Village in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District (CID), will lead a delegation of 30 young Pokémon trainers from the Pacific Northwest to the World Pokémon Championship in Hawaii late this month.
WWII soldiers posthumously receive Purple Heart medals 79 years after fatal plane crash
The families of five Hawaii men who served in a unit of Japanese-language linguists during World War II received posthumous Purple Heart medals on behalf of their loved ones on Friday, nearly eight decades after the soldiers died in a plane crash in the final days of the conflict.
Heart of Hawaii’s historic Lahaina, burned in wildfire, reopens to residents and business owners
The heart of Lahaina, the historic town on the Hawaiian island of Maui that burned in a deadly wildfire that killed at least 100 people, reopened Monday to residents and business owners holding day passes.
Diverse crowd rallies from around the world to support Sen. Hirono’s re-election
They traveled from other states and even 5,000 miles from France to support the first Asian, female U.S. (and the only immigrant) senator, Mazie K. Hirono, and her re-election campaign at a Pioneer Square restaurant on Aug. 28.
Oprah Winfrey, Dwayne Johnson announce $10 million Maui relief fund
Oprah Winfrey and Dwayne Johnson have committed $10 million to make direct payments to people on Maui who are unable to return to their homes because of the wildfires, through a new fund they announced Thursday.
CID businesses help with donations for Maui wildfire victims
Uwajimaya will continue to accept donations to help the victims of the devastating Hawaii wildfires at its registers through August 31, it said on its Facebook page.
Maui town ravaged by fire will ‘rise again,’ Hawaii governor says
Hawaii Gov. Josh Green said that what’s rebuilt from the ashes of the devastating wildfires on Maui will be determined by the people.
Hawaii churches offer prayers for the dead and the missing after devastating Maui wildfires
Parishioners mourned the dead and prayed for the missing Sunday in Hawaii churches as communities began looking ahead to a long recovery from last week’s wildfire that demolished a historic Maui town and killed more than 90 people.
At least 55 people died on Maui. Residents had little warning before wildfires overtook a town
Hawaii emergency management records show no indication that warning sirens sounded before people ran for their lives from wildfires on Maui that killed at least 55 people and wiped out a historic town.