For nearly a century, the people of Santa Clarita have come together each Independence Day to celebrate not just the birth of ...

Gingerly exploring an overgrown gulch about 20 minutes west of Pearl Harbor, the serenity punctuated only by the chatter of ...

The poem that inspired the song, America the Beautiful, is 130 years old today, and it resonates more than ever.

Democrats bashing President Trump for striking Iran without congressional consent are bumping into an inconvenient history: Democratic presidents have done the same thing for decades. From Bill ...

Today in History for July 12: In 1191, the armies of the Third Crusade (1189-92), led by England's King Richard I (The Lionhearted), captured the Syrian seaport of Acre, now located in northern Israel ...

Drake never returned to Oahu or Pearl Harbor, and only occasionally shared his remarkable story in public. “I do feel like a part of history,” Drake told the Herald Leader in 2016.

History Past Conflicts World War II Oldest Pearl Harbor survivor dies at 106 Vaughn Drake Jr. was a 23-year-old Army engineer working in Oahu when Japanese forces attacked the American base.

We are fine. We are safe.’ One of the most devastating attacks in American history, Pearl Harbor will forever be remembered as the moment America was pulled into World War II.

Hawaii News » Surfer, judge, Pearl Harbor survivors among notable deaths in 2024 Wednesday, January 01, 2025 12:05 am 1/13 COURTESY PHOTO U.S. District Judge Alan C. Kay.

With his death, only 15 remain, according to a tally kept by the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. On Dec. 7, 1941, Upton, then a 22-year-old petty officer, was starting his day ...

Today there are only 16 still living, according to a list maintained by Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors.

The attack by the Japanese Imperial Navy, which targeted Pearl Harbor and other military sites across Oahu, killed 2,390 U.S. servicemen. Of those, 1,177 were sailors and Marines on board the USS ...