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MEDIA RELEASE A long awaited answer to public transportation needs was delivered April Fool’s Day with a new Hawaiian Paradise Park bus route. “All this time I had to walk … hitch a ride, and that’s pretty dangerous, but what else can you do? So this [new bus route] is good,” passenger Jeanne Seimer said. […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man wanted for harassment and sexual assault on a public bus. On January 28 at about 3:25 p.m. the unidentified man touched a female minor while engaging in an indecent act on a Hele-On bus in Waimea near the Lakeland bus stop. He […]

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Hilo Downtown Improvement Association: ‘It’s a very special place, we love it dearly, and now it’s even better’

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By Hawaii 24/7 Staff Fire/rescue crews responded to a 3:53 p.m. alarm Wednesday (Dec 19) to the 30 mile marker of Highway 19 in Ookala for a head-on collision between an SUV and Hele-On bus. The male driver of the SUV was pinned in the vehicle. Firefighters used the Jaws of Life to extract the […]

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Teams gathered at Keauhou Shopping Center to show who had the muscle beyond the madness of pulling a Hawaii County Hele-On bus Saturday (April 21).

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A Hilo man has been released from custody after prosecutors declined to file formal charges against him for carrying an Air soft pellet gun on a Hele-On bus. On Wednesday at about 2:47 p.m., South Hilo patrol officers responded to a report of a man with a gun on a bus in transit from Hilo […]

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Big Island police are looking for witnesses who were riding a Hele-On bus shortly before one of the riders was robbed after exiting. A 35-year-old Kailua-Kona man reported that he boarded a southbound bus on Ali’i Drive in Kailua-Kona at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. He got off on Hawaii Belt Road just north of Haukapila Street.

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