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HawaiÊ»i Island Police are renewing their request for the public’s help in locating 27-year-old Kyle Brittain who was reported as missing. He was last seen near the Waipio Valley lookout area on Friday morning (August 30). He had informed family members that he was going hiking for the day on the transverse (Zig-Zag) trail in […]

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HCCD update: DPW reports the Waipio Valley Access Road, which was closed earlier today due to a landslide, is now open. Mahalo for our kokua.

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Fire/rescue crews responded to an 11:58 a.m. alarm Saturday (Aug 11) to Waipio Valley beach for a possible drowning. Crews arrived to the beach and found a bystander performing CPR on a man in his late 50s in age who was found in about five-feet of water floating face-down offshore. The man was brought to […]

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Fire/rescue crews responded to an 11:24 a.m. alarm Sunday (June 10) to Waipio Valley Beach for a possible drowning. Crews arrived to find bystanders performing CPR on a 38-year-old man on the beach. Rescuers were unable to resuscitate the victim.

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Fire/rescue crews answered a 9:24 a.m. alarm Wednesday (May 16) to Waipio Valley Beach for a possible drowning. Upon arrival rescue crews found bystanders doing CPR on a man about 50-years-old. The fire department’s Chopper two airlifted the victim from the beach to a landing zone at the end of Honokaa-Waipio Road for transfer to […]

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HawaiÊ»i Island police have arrested a 67-year-old Hāmākua man following his indictment by a grand jury for a 2016 murder in WaipiÊ»o Valley. On (August 14), Wayne Teves was arrested without incident at his WaipiÊ»o Valley residence and charged with second-degree murder and carrying or using a firearm in the commission of a separate felony. […]

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 2:52 p.m. alarm Sunday (Jan 1) to Waimanu Valley where 15 hikers were trapped due to a raging Waimanu Stream. The heavy rains made Waimanu Stream too dangerous for multiple groups of hikers to crossover from the north side of the valley. Five hikers in another group were able to […]

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Hawaiʻi Island police are renewing their request for information about a body that was discovered in Waipio Valley on March 3. The victim has been identified as 49-year-old Thaine Ulysses Lucifer Price of Honokaʻa. The case is classified as a murder. Detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigation Section are continuing the investigation.

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The DLNR reopened the Muliwai hiking trail and the campground in Waimanu Valley following the reopening of the Waipio valley access road. The reopening is due to an extended period of no new reported cases of dengue fever in Waipio residents.

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Hawaiʻi Island police have opened a murder investigation in connection with the body that was discovered in Waipio Valley on March 3. The victim has been identified as 49-year-old Thaine Ulysses Lucifer Price of Honokaʻa. Detectives from the Area I Criminal Investigation Section are continuing the investigation.

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Hawaiʻi Island police are investigating the discovery of body in the Honokaʻa District. At 5:56 p.m. Thursday (March 3), police responded to Waipio Valley after receiving a report of an unresponsive man in a small stream. Responding officers located the victim, who was partially submerged in the stream.

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The Department of Land and Natural Resources has closed the Muliwai hiking trail on the far cliff side of Waipio Valley and its Waimanu Valley campground, following the confirmation of two cases of dengue in Waipio residents.

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The Waipi‘o Valley access road will be closed for tree trimming work between the hours of 8-11 a.m. and 12-2:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 19, 2015 and Friday, November 20, 2015. This closure is necessary to complete the work in a timely manner and for the safety of the workers and the traveling public.

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Fire/rescue crews responded to a 3:48 p.m. alarm Monday (Aug 17) to the Lalakea Trail near Waipo Valley. Rescue crews from Honokaa arrived to find 14 people in two separate groups from an ATV tour stranded on the opposite side of a flash flood which blocked their exit from the trail system.

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