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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 9:35 a.m. alarm Saturday (Sept 15) for a structure fire located between Kinoole St. and Alenaio Lane in Hilo. Crews found a two-story plantation style home on a post-and-pier foundation with the rear garage area engulfed in flames spreading fire through the home to the front, Kinoole Street, side and […]

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A 24-year-old Ocean View man died following a single-vehicle crash Sunday, (August 26), in Ocean View near the 82-mile marker of HawaiÊ»i Belt Road, Highway 11. He has been identified as Derick Tokjen. Responding to a 7:09 a.m. call, police determined that a gray 2005 Honda sedan being operated by Tokjen had been traveling North […]

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 7:09 a.m. alarm Sunday (Aug 26) to the area between the 82-83 mile markers of Mamalahoa Highway south (Route 11) for a crash. Crews arrived to find an overturned vehicle about 20 yards off the roadway. In the vehicle was a man about 40-years-old dead with fatal injuries.

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At approximately 1:58 p.m., Tuesday afternoon, (August 21), the HawaiÊ»i Fire Department and the HawaiÊ»i Police Department responded to a reported brush fire on the roadside south of the Komohana and Ponahawai Street intersection in Hilo. Upon fire and police arrival, the burning lifeless body of an unidentified male had been discovered in a culvert […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police are investigating the death of a man and woman at an apartment complex in Kailua-Kona. At approximately 9:49 a.m., this morning, (August 8), police responded to an apartment complex on Ali’i Drive in Kailua-Kona. Officers found the lifeless bodies of a male and female within the second-floor unit.

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HawaiÊ»i Police detectives are investigating an incident involving a boat that ran aground which resulted in one death. Saturday evening, (June 9), at about 8:00 p.m., the HawaiÊ»i County Fire Department received an emergency call regarding a boat that had collided into a cliff along the shoreline fronting the Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport. The […]

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A 29-year-old Kamuela man died following a two-vehicle crash on Sunday, (June 3), on Kawaihae Road near the 64-mile marker, in Kamuela. He has been identified as Ryan Estvanik. Responding to a 10:00 p.m. call, police determined that a 2004 Kawasaki motorcycle, (operated by Estvanik), had been traveling east on Kawaihae Road when he crossed […]

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Two women died in a two-vehicle crash Friday afternoon, (June 1), on Palani Road near the intersection of Laimana Street, Kailua-Kona. They have been identified as 70-year-old Takako Oikawa, of Kanagawa, Japan, and Michiko Ono, 69-years-old, of Tokyo. Responding to a 4:33 p.m.call, police determined that a 2016 Nissan sedan operated by a 69-year-old man […]

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afternoon, (May 28), on Highway 11 near the 51-mile marker in Pāhala She has been identified as Julia Gonzaga Responding to a 12:29 p.m. call, police determined that a 2012 Mazda minivan operated by an 84-year-old Pāhala man had been traveling south on Highway 11 near the 51-mile marker when the van ran off the […]

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Police have identified the man who died in a 1-vehicle traffic crash Monday (May 21) on Highway 130 near the 21-mile marker in the Puna District. He was identified as 59-year-old Kenneth “Key” Mepham Jr. of Kalapana. This was the 11th traffic fatality this year compared with 15 at the same time last year. Police […]

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A 28-year-old Hilo man has died following a single vehicle crash which occurred Sunday morning (May 13) on Highway 11 near the 41.5 mile marker in Kapapala, Kaʻū. He was identified as Brayden T. Martin

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 7:47 a.m. alarm Sunday (May 13) to the 41-mile marker of Mamalahoa Highway (Route 11) in Pahala for a single car crash. Crews arrived to find a car that crashed, rolled over and ejected a person from the vehicle. The person was found dead. The roadway was closed as crews […]

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An autopsy was performed this morning (May 4) on the victim who died Wednesday (May 2) in a fatal industrial accident on Highway 19 in PaÊ»auilo. Preliminary autopsy results indicate that the man, 52-year-old Lyle Kaaihili of Waikoloa, died as a result of blunt force trauma to his body with the manner of death being […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police have identified the man who died yesterday (May 2), in a fatal industrial accident on Highway 19 in Paʻauilo. The victim is identified as 52-year-old Lyle Kaaihili of Waikoloa.

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