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 […]
Last Monday, EnSync Energy Systems — a developer of innovative distributed energy resources — announced that an undisclosed Hawaii-based investor had purchased a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) for Kohala Village HUB. The PPA will finance a new 60-kilowatt PV system and a 37-kWh lithium-ion residential energy storage system at the Hawi facility. Both systems will meet the majority of the energy needs for the inn, restaurant and other buildings […]
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 […]
UPDATE ROAD IS NOW OPEN Monday July 16, at 7:30 AM. Hawaii Police Department reports Highway 190 is closed at the 18 mile marker near Big Island Country Club due to a traffic crash. Motorists are advised to use alternate routes.
Tuesday, July 10 at 12:10 pm. Hawaii Police Department reports that Kawaihae Road is now open in both directions. The utility lines have been cleared from the roadway. Hawaii Police Department reports that Kawaihae Road in South Kohala is closed between mile markers 60 and 61 in both directions due to utility lines on the roadway. Motorists in the affected area are advised to drive with caution as Police and […]
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 […]
