A resolution asking the Census to re-designate Captain Cook as Ka‘awaloa has crossed over to the state Senate. Introduced by Rep. Jeanne Kapela (D-Naalehu, Ocean View, Captain Cook, and Kailua-Kona) ...

The petition, the first of its type filed by ACLU-HI, alleges Juan Jose Estrada Lopez’s detention without charges or bond is ...

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 ...

The Hawaii Department of Health has closed down the L &L Drive Inn in Captain Cook, Hawaii, with a red placard due to multiple violations. According to DOH, the red placard was issued Friday due to an ...

CAPTAIN COOK, Hawaii (KHON2) — A woman is dead after the car she was a passenger in crashed on Friday, March 19, 2021 near the three-mile marker of Ke Ala O Keawe Road in Captain Cook. Police say she ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the waves roll into Kealakekua Bay, a white obelisk 27 feet tall looms over the shoreline. It's ...

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 ...

A 19-year-old woman from Kailua-Kona died in a fiery car crash Friday night in Captain Cook in South Kona, Hawaii County police said this morning. The woman was one of two passengers in the ...

KAILUA-KONA, Hawaii (Island News) -- L&L Drive Inn in Captain Cook, Hawaii was immediately shut down on Aug. 2, 2024 after the Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) Food Safety Branch issued a red “closed ...