One of the remotest places on earth, Pitcairn Island was spotted on this day in 1767 by 15-year old midshipman Robert Pitcairn, serving on HMS Swallow.

The island is part of the larger Pitcairn Islands, which includes the uninhabited Henderson, Ducie, and Oeno Islands. They form the UK’s sole overseas territory in the Pacific Ocean.

One thing above all others the British Navy was slow to forgive: mutiny. Though Pitcairn Island had become a British colony in 1893, British ships still shunned the faraway, surf-swept island ...

Pitcairn Island has a wild and picturesque coastline that's accessed by daunting scrambles along lava rock. Credit: Craig Tansley "I bet I've been to more places in Australia than you," Mason says ...

Rock Island aldermen want to know what kind of studies A Hana Illowa LLC need to do before allowing them to fence off a 10-acre development site.

In 2004, the tiny Pacific island of Pitcairn was torn apart when seven men were put on trial for sexually abusing children. In her gripping new book, Kathy Marks, who covered the story for The ...

Rock Island Police are investigating the 10th homicide of the year, and the third in three weeks, after a man was shot to death early Saturday.

From Hollywood to Rock Island is not the usual direction of storybook tale. But for Carl McClaskey’s life story, it all makes perfect sense. A 1983 Alleman High School graduate and Moline native ...