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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The town of Captain Cook on Hawaii Island got its name when the Captain Cook Sugar Company opened a post office there in the early 1900′s. But some feel it is an honor for a ...

KEALAKEKUA BAY Adventures in Paradise guide Lalu Gardner was taking a group out on a morning kayak tour of Kealakekua Bay on Tuesday when he heard a blood-curdling scream. “She was about 30 feet from ...

CAPTAIN COOK (HawaiiNewsNow) - After searching for six days, the Hawaii County Fire Department has ended their efforts to find a New York teenager who was swept out to sea. Tyler Madoff, 15, went ...