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The Hawai‘i County Department of Parks & Recreation would like to announce that, in conjunction with Queen Liliʻuokalani Children’s Center (QLCC), we will be hosting an Easter Egg Hunt on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, for ages 2 to 12 years old at the Hawaiian Beaches Community Center.

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MEDIA RELEASE Wesley Kaimana Brooks A 31-year-old KeaÊ»au man is being sought for questioning in connection with an early morning shooting in Hawaiian Beaches. This morning (March 25), shortly after 6:15 a.m., Puna patrol officers responded to a report of several shots fired on Kawakawa Street in Hawaiian Beaches. Responding officers learned that a 26-year-old […]

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 1:43 p.m. alarm Friday (Aug 17) to 15-336 Kahakai Blvd in Hawaiian Beaches for a structure fire. Crews arrived to find a single-story home engulfed in flames with fire and heavy smoke throughout the structure. A neighboring home on the mauka side of the property was in danger of catching […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police are asking for the public’s help in locating a 18-year-old Mountain View man wanted for questioning about an incident Thursday morning (January 19) in Puna. Kahekili John Krause is described as Part-Hawaiian, 6-feet tall, 145 pounds with brown eyes and short brown hair. He may be operating a light-colored Honda 4-door sedan […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police are asking for the public’s help in locating a pair of Everlast boxing gloves that have the signatures of numerous boxers and referees who participated in the 1984 Olympic Games. The gloves were removed from a home in Hawaiian Beaches, possibly in mid-January.

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Hawaiʻi Island police have charged a 49-year-old Pāhoa man with two offenses stemming from an incident Friday (October 23) in Puna. Keith Kaapana Cummings was taken into custody Friday afternoon following a brief standoff in which he barricaded himself in a house in the lower portion of Hawaiian Beaches.

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Firefighters responded to a 6:26 p.m. alarm Monday evening to 15-2685 Kumu Street in the Hawaiian Beach subdivision of Puna. Crews arrived to find a single story, unoccupied home with smoke coming from the rafters and flames in the walls. Firefighters had to force their way through the locked and fenced property line and open […]

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The Hawaii State Department of Education (DOE) will begin the planning process to reopen Keonepoko Elementary School in Hawaiian Beaches now that lava is no longer an immediate threat to the area. The planning will also include addressing all of the adjustments made in October 2014 that affected 1,700 students and 300 employees.

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Police have located a Puna man wanted for assaulting a police officer, domestic abuse, and terroristic threatening. Christopher Gonsalves, M-48, of Hawaiian Beaches, was arrested

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On Thursday, December 13, 2012, at approximately 10:40 p.m, Hawaii Community Correctional Center escapee Ryan Jeffries-Hamar, 31 years-old, was arrested at a residence in Hawaiian Beaches, Pahoa, Hawaii.

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A 45-year-old Pāhoa man is in police custody following a domestic dispute in Pāhoa Sunday night (December 2). Around 4:15 a.m. Monday (December 3), police arrested Peter Lopes for second-degree terroristic threatening, first-degree arson, third-degree assault and first-degree promoting a detrimental drug.

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 8:15 p.m. alarm Sunday (Dec 3) to a structure fire in the Hawaii Beaches subdivision. Crews found a 20×60 foot home engulfed in flames with the carport roof collapsed. A live downed powerline fronting the structure made access difficult for firefighters.

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MEDIA RELEASE Big Island police have charged a 72-year-old Puna man in connection with a shooting Sunday evening (May 13) at a home in PanaÊ»ewa. Joseph Amormino of Hawaiian Beaches was charged at 3:23 p.m. Tuesday (May 15) with first-degree attempted murder, two counts of second-degree attempted murder, burglary, use of a firearm in the […]

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Big Island police are investigating an incident in which a 16-year-old boy was injured at his Pāhoa home on Saturday (June 4). At about 5:11 p.m., Puna patrol officers responded to a report of an injured person at a home in the Hawaiian Beaches subdivision. Officers discovered the unconscious victim with an apparent wound to […]

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