Shoppers with a nose for the new have discovered a tiny fashion outpost in our own back yard.

Photographer G. Brad Lewis gets closer to lava than you’d ever want to.

A big-wave rider and early tow-in surfing pioneer, the Maui resident can handle heavy water. But a groundswell of angry locals, tired of overcrowded surf spots, has engendered a new Maui County law.

Maui taxpayers are fighting off development by buying land for conservation.