The Captain Cook Monument is a 27-foot obelisk that was erected in 1874 to memorialize where Cook died. He was killed in 1779 after a fight broke out between the Hawaiians and Westerners. The monument ...

A 43-year-old Captain Cook man was taken into custody without incident Tuesday night following a barricade situation in South Kona involving a firearm and a young child, according to the Hawaii Police ...

HONOLULU (KHON) — An ʻahu ʻula (feather cloak) and mahiole (feather helmet) that were held at Bishop Museum on a long-term loan have now been entrusted to remain there in perpetuity. They were ...

“I never before met with the natives of any place so much astonished, as these people were, upon entering a ship,” wrote Captain James Cook upon first landing in what he called the Sandwich ...

An investigation is underway to determine the culprit behind an act of vandalism over the holiday weekend at the Captain Cook Monument on the shoreline of Kealakekua Bay. On Monday, the state ...

CAPTAIN COOK, Hawaii (Island News) -- Hawaii Police arrested and charged a wanted fugitive with more than a dozen offenses, following a crime spree that resulted in an officer-involved shooting in ...

State lawmakers are weighing a resolution seeking to change the name of Captain Cook on Hawaii island back to Kaawaloa. The U.S. Census Bureau renamed the census-designated place in the 1920s because ...