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- Photos of victims are displayed under white crosses at a memorial for victims of the August 2023 wildfire, above the Lahaina Bypass highway, Dec. 6, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. Hawaii officials said Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, that they have identified the last of the 100 known victims of the wildfire that destroyed Lahaina in August of last year. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)
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Hawaii officials identify the last of the 100 known victims of the wildfire that destroyed Lahaina
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press
Fri,01/26/24-5:57PM , 828 Reads
HONOLULU (AP) — The last of the 100 known victims of the wildfire that destroyed Maui's historic town of Lahaina in August was identified Friday as a 70-year-old woman whose husband, sister and several other relatives also died in the fire
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- Flags blow in the breeze at the grave of Father Damien outside St. Philomena Church on Kalaupapa, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Damien was canonized a Catholic saint in 2009 for his work taking care of the physical and spiritual needs of leprosy patients in the 1800s. His body was moved to his home country of Belgium in 1936. Only the priest's hand remains, which was reburied at the site in 1995. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Pilgrims yearn to visit isolated peninsula where Catholic saints cared for Hawaii's leprosy patients
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press
Fri,12/01/23-7:02AM , 503 Reads
KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (AP) — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black rock shores that glisten under the Pacific’s pristine waters.
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- Flags blow in the breeze at the grave of Father Damien outside St. Philomena Church on Kalaupapa, Hawaii, on Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Damien was canonized a Catholic saint in 2009 for his work taking care of the physical and spiritual needs of leprosy patients in the 1800s. His body was moved to his home country of Belgium in 1936. Only the priest's hand remains, which was reburied at the site in 1995. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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Pilgrims yearn to visit isolated peninsula where Catholic saints cared for Hawaii's leprosy patients
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press
Fri,12/01/23-6:59AM , 412 Reads
KALAUPAPA, Hawaii (AP) — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black rock shores that glisten under the Pacific’s pristine waters.
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- Sacred Hearts School third grade students pet Quincy, a comfort dog with Assistance Dogs of Hawaii, at Sacred Hearts Mission Church on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, in Lahaina, Hawaii. The three public schools that survived the deadly August wildfire are set to reopen this week. (AP Photo/Mengshin Lin)
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Schools near a Maui wildfire burn zone are reopening. Parents wrestle with whether to send kids back
By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER - Associated Press
Sat,10/14/23-11:28PM , 604 Reads
LAHAINA, Hawaii (AP) — Children take their places at folding tables on a church patio several miles from where their school burned down. Plastic tubs hold brand new textbooks quickly shipped from a publisher. Recess is on the resort golf course across the street.
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