Kailua Kona News

Beachgoers leave Kekaha Kai State Park Tuesday afternoon following a reported shark attack.

West Hawaii Today reports a grand jury last week indicted Alfred Kamaka III of Kailua-Kona on 10 felony sexual assault counts and one count of misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a minor.

A 29-year-old Kailua-Kona man was swimming about 100 feet off shore shortly before 1 p.m. when he spotted a shark in waters off Kekaha Kai State Park, also known as Kona Coast State Park.

Preston Davis, who just graduated from Campbell High School in Ewa Beach, and Cody Benbow, a 2013 graduate of Kealakehe High School in Kailua-Kona, were selected for yearlong National Security Language Initiative for Youth scholarships in the Arabic language.

The .44-caliber bang stick was found in the carry-on bag of a passenger at Kona Airport.

HOPE Services Hawaii will expand its services to the Big Island with the addition of a clean and sober house for Department of Public Safety felony inmates making the transition back into the community.

A Hawaii man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Honolulu to calling the FBI and saying there was a hijacker aboard an Alaska Airlines flight from Kailua-Kona to Seattle.

The Kona Crime Prevention Committee recognized Officer Dwayne Sluss as "Officer of the Month" for June in a luncheon ceremony Wednesday, June 5 at Huggo's restaurant in Kailua-Kona.

Mokulele Airlines is preparing to expand its interisland service this summer with the expected arrivals of two new Cessna Grand Caravan turboprop aircraft.

Stephen W. Troute, 67, of Kailua-Kona died June 2, 2013, at the Queen's Medical Center.

Citizens Arrested and Charged

Cellana, a Hawaii-based developer of algae-based feedstocks for biofuels, animal feed and omega-3 nutritional oils has entered into an agreement into a multi-year off-take agreement with Neste Oil for commercial-scale amounts of Cellana's "ReNew Fuel" algae oil feedstocks for biofuel projects, the companies said Thursday.

A man is dead and a woman injured after a sedan collided with a utility truck performing maintenance work Wednesday evening on Queen Kaahumanu Highway in Kailua-Kona.

A 45-year-old Kawaihae man died Wednesday from injuries he received when the car he was passenger in hit the rear of a boom truck on Queen Kaahumanu Highway in Kailua-Kona.

A 38-year-old Kailua-Kona man who faced a manslaughter charge in connection with a Jan. 9 Kalaoa accident in which police say he ran over his 3-year-old son has reached a plea deal with prosecutors that reduces the felony offense to a misdemeanor.

Two West Hawaii schools have merged to create Makua Lani Christian Academy. The decision was made at a recent meeting of the boards of directors for the 115-student pre-kindergarten through seventh-grade Kona Christian Academy and Makua Lani Christian School, a high school with an enrollment of 85. "The creation of Makua Lani Christian Academy ... (more)

Atchuo Ueta Palik, 27, of Kailua-Kona died May 17, 2013, at Kona Community Hospital.

Kaiser Permanente is building its new Kona clinic with prefabricated walls that were designed in California, built in Cleveland and shipped to Kawaihae Harbor on Hawaii's Big Island.

Burton Egon Bach, 89, of Kailua-Kona died May 24, 2013. Born April 11, 1924, in Germany, he was a former member of the Elks in California and owned and operated a bowling and trophy shop.

A woman who was walking west on Loloku Street in the old industrial area of Kailua-Kona at about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday reported an unknown man grabbed her from behind, punched her, dragged her off the north shoulder of the road and sexually assaulted her.