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Due to equipment failure, an Emergency Water Restriction is issued for the Paʻauilo area. Customers should restrict water usage to health and safety needs only (drinking, cooking, and hygiene purposes only). Irrigation activities should cease. Water is currently being hauled to meet the community’s needs; please kōkua and limit water usage.

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On Saturday, July 28, 2018, Hui Mālama i ke Ala ʻŪlili (huiMAU), a grassroots organization based in Paʻauilo, Hāmākua, will host a community event in celebration of the 175th anniversary of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea, at the Paʻauilo School Field.

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A 37-year-old Papaaloa woman died following a two-vehicle crash Saturday afternoon, (December 2), in Paauilo. She was identified as Lori Ann Sato. Responding to a 3:58 p.m., call, police determined that a 2004 Honda sedan was traveling northbound on Highway 19, near the 34-mile marker, overtaking a vehicle in a no passing zone and was […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police are investigating an incident involving the theft of several handguns from a shipping container in the Hāmākua District. On Tuesday (August 8), police were called to a vacant Paʻauilo Mauka Road property after a caretaker noticed that a door on the shipping container was pried opened. In addition to a red portable […]

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Police have identified the man who died from injuries sustained in the 3-vehicle crash Wednesday (June 7) on Highway 19 near the 37-mile marker in Paʻauilo. He was identified as 32-year-old Jacob De Jesus of Paʻauilo. This is the 20th traffic fatality this year compared with 10 at this time last year.

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 9:05 a.m. alarm Wednesday (June 7) to a crash site near the 36 mile marker of Mamalahoa Highway (Route 19) in Paauilo. Crews found the scene of a head-on collision involving three vehicles, a 4-door car, a dump truck towing a flatbed trailer and an SUV. The car was heading […]

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MEDIA RELEASE Hawaiʻi Island Police are investigating a burglary that occurred at a residence in the Paʻauilo area of the Hāmākua Coast sometime between May 2016 and November 2016 and are asking for the public’s assistance in locating the stolen items listed below that were taken from the residence: 1. One-fourth pound of coins that […]

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The Waika’alulu Bridge No.44-5 located on Pa‘auilo Mauka Road (between Ho’okahua Road and Kukuipapa Road) that is scheduled to be closed for repair work between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., now requires a 24-hour closure beginning on Wednesday, March 8, 2017 through Friday, March 10, 2017.

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The Ka’apahu-Waika’alulu Gulch Bridges No.44-2, No.44-3 and the Waika’alulu Bridge No.44-5 located on Pa‘auilo Mauka Road, between Ho’okahua Road and Kukuipapa Road, will be closed for repair work between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. beginning on Thursday, March 2 , 2017 through Friday, March 10, 2017, weather and construction conditions permitting. There […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police have located 32-year-old Bruno A. Facchini of Paʻauilo who was wanted for assault. He turned himself in to Hāmākua police on Wednesday (April 7) at 10 a.m., was arrested, and released pending further investigation.

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Hawaiʻi Island police are searching for a 16-year-old Paʻauilo boy who was reported missing. Benjamin Zindric was last seen in the Waikululu area of Paʻauilo on December 30. He is described as 5-foot-11, 158 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. He may be in the in the company of a friend named “J.J.”

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A Kona man has been charged with three offenses in connection with an accidental shooting while illegally target practicing in the forest. At 6:26 p.m. Tuesday (March 31), Hāmākua police responded to a forest area off Pa‘auilo Landing Road, where 24-year-old Sean Smith II of Kailua-Kona reported that a 24-year-old woman had been wounded while […]

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MEDIA RELEASE St. Columba Episcopal Mission, located in Paauilo, will experience a resurrection of sorts, a “replant,” on Easter Sunday with Mass and Holy Communion at 9:30 a.m. The cfhurch is located just below the Paauilo Elementary and Intermediate School and mauka of the Mamalahoa highway between mile markers 37 and 36. Established in 1898 […]

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Hawaii Electric Light Company advises customers of a power outage affecting the Paauilo area from Kukaiau to Kalopa this Friday morning, February 8, from 1:00 a.m. to approximately 5:00 a.m. to allow HELCO personnel to safely perform emergency substation repairs.

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