On a cold November day, icy winds stream down the Potomac River, washing across the widening riverscape and blasting the Jones Point Lighthouse.

The keepers could go weeks or even months with little to no interaction with other human beings. Constant crashing waves and ...

Dirk Baur and Brian Lucey, two respected professors, conducted detailed research into gold’s crisis behaviour. They made an ...

Two soldiers clung to their overturned boat, roiled by the frigid waters of Rhode Island’s Newport harbor. It was March 1869, and rough weather had turned a pleasure expedition into a perilous ...

MILWAUKEE — Safety concerns at Milwaukee’s city hall and the Zeidler Municipal Building are being raised after a false alarm. It comes after an incident Thursday where reports of shots fired were ...

Manitowoc County has many historic landmarks. One of the most interesting structures is the Rawley Point Lighthouse operated by the U.S. Coast Guard, 4 miles north of Two Rivers, adjacent to Point ...

EMMET COUNTY, MI -- There are two open positions on the most remote, tallest lighthouse on Lake Michigan. An ideal applicant has more than just a great sense of adventure if they’re going to make it ...

Early lighthouse lenses, which could weigh thousands of pounds, were floated on beds of mercury that allowed them to turn in their signature flash patterns. For hundreds of years, lighthouse keepers ...

In 1923, Mary Watson Pesonen, wife of North Head Lighthouse keeper Alexander “Ikey” Pesonen, threw herself onto the rocks below. Newspapers suggested her “rash act” of suicide was prompted by the ...