Captain Cook was William Bligh's mentor, role model, and cautionary tale all at once. This is the story of how Cook's three voyages, his violence, his diseases, and his death in Hawaii, shaped ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 lot of things started going wrong from the very beginning," historian Hampton Sides says of Cook's last voyage, which ended in the British explorer's violent death on the island of Hawaii in 1779.

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 ...

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Hawaii Island police have opened an investigation into a structure fire that broke out Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 20, in the Captain Cook area. Around 3:15 p.m., Kona patrol ...