Widger, who worked at a tire company in Portland, left it all behind last year. He bought a boat and relocated to Warrenton, ...

Oliver Widger and Phoenix sailed from the Oregon coast to Hawaii in a boat he bought without knowing how to sail.

Cheers: To a grand parade. Vancouver’s Downtown Association is spearheading the city’s participation in Portland’s Grand Floral Parade, constructing a float that depicts t River and the lin ...

HONOLULU (AP) — An Oregon man who quit his job at a tire company and liquidated his retirement savings to set sail for Hawaii with his cat, Phoenix, reached his destination Saturday, welcomed by ...

taught himself to sail mostly via YouTube and moved from Portland to the Oregon coast, where he spent months refitting the $50,000 boat he bought. Now, Widger is harnessing the power of social ...

At Midlands Humane Society, Adopt a Shelter Cat Month is especially important as kitten season is in full swing — and our ...

MARIENBERG, Germany — U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs threaten to become a tough nut to crack in an unlikely place — a small company whose factory nestled deep in the hills of eastern ...

NEW YORK — A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human ...

Oliver Jeffers, full name Oliver Brendan Jeffers, is a British artist and illustrator born in 1977 in Australia. He is known for his figurative painting and illustration, particularly in the genre of ...

When the Justice Department lifted a school desegregation order in Louisiana, officials called its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggested that others dating to the Civil Rights ...

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