Once, we woke up to the captain calling everyone to the deck. A young polar bear was attempting to board Barba. We kept it at ...

# The former mailboat Exuma Pride began her career as His Majesty’s Ship LCG (M)192 before becoming Hjelmeland Fjord in Norway in 1949; she was built in Middlesborough, England in October, 1944.

If you're one-half of a resilient and self-reliant couple and would like to spend the summer on a remote island in Scotland, ...

As astrotourism booms around the world, northern lights viewing is becoming more popular than ever. And aurora chasers are in luck: We’re currently in the middle of an astronomical phenomenon known as ...

A look at upcoming outdoors-related events from across Michigan published in the March 28, 2025, edition of Outdoor News.

A Grand Forks folk artist, Pieper Bloomquist, will have her work featured in a new exhibition, "Nordic Echoes: Tradition in Contemporary Art," which opens April 5 at the Scandinavia House in New York ...

I went on an exhilarating trip to Barcelona.  If I mention this to friends, they tend to bring up the water-pistol protests.

From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of ...

As an avid sailor and plein air (outside painting) artist, Owen loves painting boats, bears ... It was "well-suited for shipping wood and turpentine before the turn of the century." ...

NUUK, Greenland (AP) — On a boat, surrounded by snow-covered mountains and icebergs in shades of blue, Qooqu Berthelsen points to the breaking sea ice as a worrisome sign. Now, though, something is ...

Iowa's state and county parks, unique museums, natural attractions, historical sites, and rolling hills along the Mississippi ...