West Maui: the brief, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026
By the county's count on its wildfire recovery dashboard, 604 homes in the Lahaina and Kula rebuild have passed final inspection, and 415 more are under construction. [source: the County of Maui's recovery dashboard, Sept. 15, 2026]
The planning director's Sept. 22 report lists an exemption from shoreline-area permitting for the state Department of Transportation's realignment of about 1,000 feet of Honoapiʻilani Highway near milepost 13, to address sea level rise and king tides, and a permit for archaeological testing for the highway project. [source: the Maui planning director's report, Sept. 22, 2026]
On Sept. 22 the state water commission is scheduled to hear a status update on water use permit applications in the Lahaina Surface and Ground Water Management Area. [source: the Commission on Water Resource Management's agenda, Sept. 22, 2026]
Everything on the record that names Lahaina is gathered on one page. [source: the Ledger's Lahaina tracker]
Basis. Written by the Ledger in a session on Sept. 19, 2026 from the records linked in each sentence; it says what was on the record that day, in plain words, and does not predict outcomes or take sides. What has happened since is on West Maui's page. Corrections: the corrections log.