A search for a 21-year-old hunter in Koke‘e began at first light yesterday morning and was expected to continue until dusk or as long as safe weather conditions permitted, a county news release states.
Cody Kimura of Lihu‘e was reported missing at around 11:20 p.m., Saturday, after efforts to find him by his hunting party were [...]

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Multiple helicopter sightings around Kaua‘i on Thursday were described by Kaua‘i Police Department and Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources officials as part of a green harvest operation designed to eradicate marijuana plants.
DLNR spokeswoman Deborah Ward said yesterday that the operation, which was undertaken earlier in the week, was not continued yesterday and therefore [...]

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A state mission to remove rubbish from a remote Westside valley was partially sidelined yesterday afternoon when one of two helicopters hauling the trash out made a crash-landing at nearby Polihale State Park.
There were no injuries, but the impact ripped the rear assembly off the Inter-Island Air Helicopters Hughes 500 aircraft.
The red Air 1 doorless [...]

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A visitor hiking the Na Pali Coast yesterday sustained injuries and had to be evacuated by Air 1 rescue helicopter.
“We received a call around 4 p.m. from a male hiker saying there was an injured female in the Hanakoa Valley,” said Mary Daubert, Kaua‘i County spokesperson.
Emergency personnel dispatched from Lihu‘e in the chopper to evacuate [...]

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Department of Land and Natural Resources firefighting personnel on Kaua‘i contained a fire near the end of the 11-mile Kalalau hiking trail at the Kalalau campground, according to a DLNR statement.
Port Allen-based Inter-Island Helicopters reported the fire while running a tour of Napali Coast this morning. Inter-Island is also the sole helicopter responder for fires [...]

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Divers from the FBI’s Los Angeles office will try to find the missing tail rotor of the Inter-Island Helicopter that crashed last month on Kauai’s North Shore, killing a California man.
The FBI dive team, which has met with local dive shops to gather information, volunteered for the assignment, said lead investigator Jim Silliman, of the [...]

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