Those wanting to donate to the family of fallen Puna patrol Officer Bronson K. Kaliloa can do so by dropping off or mailing checks to the Pahoa police station. Checks can be made out to Casey Kaliloa, the officer’s wife. The mailing address for the station is 15-2615 Keaau-Pahoa Highway, Pahoa, HI 96778. “Donations are already starting to come in. We’ll make sure they get it,” said Maj. Samuel Jelsma, […]
Harvey Damo Jr. Shevylyn Hawaiʻi Island police are investigating two officer-involved shooting incidents that occurred Thursday, (July 18), in the areas of Keauhou and Napoopoo Road. At about 4:58 p.m., police received a tip that fugitive Justin Waiki was possibly sighted within a primer-colored Toyota pickup truck with unknown license plates within the parking lot of 75-1015 Henry Street, Kailua-Kona. Additional information indicated the truck was last seen traveling westbound […]
Hawaiʻi Island police are continuing the search for Justin Waiki for the murder of Officer Bonson K. Kaliloa, who was fatally shot while on a traffic stop on a vehicle on Highway 11, in Mt. View on Tuesday evening, (July 17). The search as been bolstered with assistance from the U.S Marshalls and FBI. Both agencies have offered rewards of $10,000 each. An additional reward of another $10,000 has been […]
UPDATE: The shooter is still at large... Condolences to the family of fallen Puna patrol Officer Bronson Kaimana Kaliloa poured in Wednesday as word spread that the 10-year Hawaii Police Department veteran was shot and killed Tuesday night, allegedly by a man wanted on an arrest warrant. Meanwhile, the manhunt for the suspect, 33-year-old Justin Joshua Waiki, who reportedly escaped on foot into the woods off Highway 11 in Mountain […]
Military units will convoy between Kawaihae Harbor and Pohakuloa Training Area beginning Friday. The units will be traveling from the military training area situated in the saddle between Mauna Loa and Maunakea through July 28. Convoys are scheduled from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. They will use the Daniel K. Inouye Highway, Mamalahoa Highway, Waikoloa Road, Queen Kaahumanu Highway and the Akoni Pule Corridor. Additionally during July, community members may […]
Election Day Registration, also known as "same day registration," was signed into law as Act 182 on July 11, 2018. A Hawaii resident aged 18 years or older can now register and vote on the same day at either Early Voting Walk-in centers or at his/her precinct on Election Day (Primary and General). This is the description from the State Office of Elections website: https://elections.hawaii.gov/voters/registration/ To reduce possible delays or […]
Hawaiʻi Island police are investigating the murder of a police officer who was fatally shot while on a traffic stop on a vehicle on Highway 11, in the area of Kukui Camp Road, Mt. View, Hawaiʻi. On July 17, 2018, approximately 9:47 p.m., Officers conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle bearing Hawaiʻi license plate number ZGG 879, being operated by a 33-year old male identified as Justin Waiki, of […]
A lava explosion at the ocean entry in lower Puna injured a dozen people aboard a lava tour boat this morning. Janet Snyder, Mayor Harry Kim’s spokeswoman, said the Hawaii Fire Department reported, three of those injured on the boat operated by Lava Ocean Tours were taken by ambulance to Hilo Medical Center after the boat returned to Wailoa Small Boat Harbor in Hilo at about 7 a.m. “Of the […]
Hawaii Island Humane Society employee Whitney Sickels and her father, John, just completed a cross-country trip from Ohio to California. But this was no ordinary road trip. The father and daughter were driving the humane society’s new spay and neuter mobile clinic from Columbus to Long Beach on the West Coast, where it was put on a container ship headed for Hilo, with an expected July 13 arrival.L LaBoit Specialty […]
