The United States military is eyeing the environmentally and culturally important Johnston Atoll, located about 717 nautical miles southwest of the Big Island, as a site to land test rockets.

Johnston Atoll, a speck of coral in the middle of the Pacific, is again at the center of a high-stakes decision—not for military secrets or nuclear experiments this time, but as the launchpad for a ...

SpaceX and the U.S. Air Force are planning a rocket cargo delivery test on Johnston Atoll, raising concerns among biologists about potential harm to seabird populations. The project, enabling speedy ...

The Air Force announced in March that it has selected Johnston Atoll, a US territory in the central Pacific Ocean located nearly 1,300km southwest of the state of Hawaii, as the site to test the ...

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WERE RIDING ON THE BUS. NONE OF THEM WERE HURT. IN JOHNSTON, THE FAMILY OF A STUDENT IS SUING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND AN EMPLOYEE. THE LAWSUIT CLAIMS THE EMPLOYEE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED THE STUDENT ON ...

The Air Force announced in March that it has selected Johnston Atoll, a U.S. territory in the central Pacific Ocean located nearly 800 miles (1,300 km) southwest of the state of Hawaii ...

By Adam Nossiter Jennifer Johnston, an admired Irish novelist whose precise, carefully woven fictions depicted historic fault lines in her country’s upper crust and frailties in its latter-day ...