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Hawaii Electric Light Company has announced that fallen trees caused by gusty winds from Tropical Storm Flossie are causing power outages throughout the lower Puna area. At this time, approximately 5,000 customers are without power.

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An unidentified man was killed Friday (May 10) from injuries he received in a motor vehicle/pedestrian crash on Highway 11 in the area of the 20-mile marker in Glenwood.

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Police traffic investigators have identified a man who died Wednesday (April 17) from injuries he sustained in a motor vehicle/pedestrian collision on Highway 11 in the area of the 18-mile marker in Glenwood. The victim was identified as 21-year-old Brendan Charlie of a Mountain View address.

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Hawaiʻi Island police have dismantled a sophisticated underground bunker marijuana-growing operation in Puna. Ending a two-year-long investigation that began in Kona, Vice Section officers served a search warrant Thursday on a home on Kokokahi Road in Glenwood. On the property was an underground bunker approximately 40 feet by 80 feet.

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Big Island police are renewing their request for witnesses to a two-vehicle crash in front of Hirano Store on October 11 or anyone who saw either vehicle before the crash on Highway 11.

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Big Island police have identified the man who died Thursday (October 11) from a two-vehicle crash on Highway 11 in front of Hirano Store as 57-year-old John K. Isabel Jr.

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Big Island police have charged a 64-year-old Glenwood man in connection with a standoff in Puna on Monday. At 4 p.m. Wednesday (August 22), detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigations Section charged Dasa Sivam with criminal trespass, promoting a detrimental drug and two counts of first-degree terroristic threatening.

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Big Island police have opened a negligent homicide investigation in connection with a vehicle-pedestrian crash Tuesday night (December 1) in the Glenwood area of Puna on Highway 11 at the 20-mile marker. Just before 9:45 p.m., a police officer was conducting a traffic stop in the Volcano-bound lane of Highway 11 on the Hilo side […]

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View Larger Map Fire/Rescue crews responded to a 12:19 a.m. alarm for a structure fire on South Glenwood Road Thursday (July 16). A storage shed on the back end of a residential large lot was fully engulfed in flames and collapsed when fire crews arrived on scene. Firefighters accessed the property via Mamalahoa Highway and […]

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