While 'Lord of the Flies' was not based on a true story, a similar event happened in 1965 when a group of six Tongan ...

This remote South Pacific island was home to one of the least necessary battles of World War II. But these days, Peleliu in ...

Interviews and a visit to Martin County's 150-year-old building culminated in a short history of the House of Refuge.

Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge is named after the notorious pirate Don Pedro Gilbert, the last pirate executed in the U.S.

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Rhode Island may be the smallest state in the U.S., but the Ocean State packs in a lot of attractions worth seeing, from its extravagant 20th-century mansions to secluded beaches to cultural sites.

My wife, Ginger Beralas Soboleski, born and raised on Kauai, told me about the Filipino Santo Niño (Holy Child) religious ...

Time to take a step back into local history. Take a look back decades at a time at this date in Anacortes history ...