William Harford, a British Royal Navy gunner with ties to Jamestown, is pictured in his sailor’s uniform with an unknown woman, believed to be his wife at a young age. Harford was present during the ...

Dec. 6, 1917 – exactly 100 years ago – marks one of the most extraordinary episodes of American heroism, when common U.S. citizens rushed to the scene of a disaster unlike anything the world had seen ...

When anyone goes on a North Atlantic cruise that stops in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the main excursion is a bus tour that informs visitors of a devastating event most of us know nothing about. Picturesque ...

Look for the helpers; they're usually the ones running toward trouble. In December 1917, the helpers were the citizens of Boston, Massachusetts. A 2.9 kiloton explosion rocked the harbor of Halifax, ...

With a bill like a duck but teeth like a croc's, a swanlike neck and killer claws, a new dinosaur species uncovered by scientists looks like something Dr. Seuss could have dreamed up. It also had ...

As the scope of the August 4 explosion at the port of Beirut becomes clear, the tolls of the loss of life, injuries, homelessness and property damage are staggering. In the immediate chaos of large ...

Eight days after two ships collided in Nova Scotia, killing about 2,000 people and injuring about 9,000 in December 1917, the superintendent of a Canadian school for the blind recounted the horror in ...

Dec. 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1768, Encyclopedia Britannica was first published. In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, abolishing slavery in the United States ...

MONTREAL, Quebec -- An unconfirmed report was received here today from Halifax stating that a fully loaded munitions ship blew up in the harbor of Rockingham, a suburb of that city completely ...