Marty Connor was 18 years old when he fought all 36 days during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. But perhaps his greatest legacy would be what happened after the war. 80 years after Iwo Jima, his ...

The nation made up of three tropical coral islands and home to 1,500 people on a combined land area of 4 square miles is also facing 10% U.S. tariffs. One of the smallest economies in the South ...

A volcanic trail shaped by Earth’s deep heat The Cook Islands sit atop a volcanic trail formed millions of years ago. As the Pacific plate moved over a fixed heat source deep in the Earth, known as a ...

Scientists have discovered a chain of young underwater volcanoes near the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. Some of these volcanoes may still be active, though no clear signs have been confirmed yet.

IRONTON — The Hanging Rock Church of Jesus Christ, led by Bishop Glenn Jenkins, will celebrate its 62nd anniversary with a special service at 6 p.m. Saturday, April 5. The church is at 525 State ...

IRONTON — A Huntington man charged with stabbing the South Point Elementary school principal last fall rejected a possible 45-year prison sentence Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court ...

When folk musician Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) arrives on the remote, sea-swept Wallis Island, he believes he’s coming to play an intimate gig for a few fans. In reality, the concert is for one man: ...

He was just learning about how Pacific peoples had navigated the ocean, guided by constellations, to find their islands. Hōkūleʻa was the first double-hulled voyaging canoe he had seen ...

For at least the last six years, China has made a more focused effort to get many of the Pacific island states, especially ones that recently switched recognition from Taipei to Beijing (for example, ...

Picture: X/ESMC The areas under threat covered the west coast of South Island, from Milford Sound to Puysegur Point. Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology said the quake posed no tsunami threat to ...

islands or territories. New Zealand lies on the seismically active "Ring of Fire", a 40,000-km arc of volcanoes and ocean trenches girdling much of the Pacific Ocean. Reporting by Renju Jose in ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Timing, they say, is everything. Ask Reid Carrico, the West Virginia linebacker, who had the honor — or maybe ill fortune — to be the first player to be put before the ...