The Department of the Air Force has suspended plans to use an isolated Pacific island as a test site for landing rockets as it considers alternative sites. The service had chosen Johnston Atoll ...

Johnson's Island, Attempted Escape. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.

On Johnson Atoll, you could stand there when we first discovered the infestation and your feet would be covered in ants,” she says. “It would make most people want to keel over and die. ...

Confederate Stockade Cemetery on Johnson's Island, the final resting place of some 267 Confederate soldiers once held at a nearby Union prison, was the only facility built by the Union during the ...