Smoke lingers from a dynamite blast on Haystack Rock in October, 1968. It was a foggy morning at Cannon Beach, as a fall chill fell over the coast. As locals woke up and started their days, they were ...

Strolling into Glen Canyon Park, it’s easy to miss the large plaque proclaiming the site to be “the first dynamite factory in America.” While historic, it also seems like an odd location to ...

On November 12, 1970, the Oregon Department of Transportation blew up a dead whale that had washed up on a Florence beach. In what was called a "controlled explosion," they used a half-ton of dynamite ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - More than two dozen heavily-armed men stormed into the centre of Guararema early on a recent morning, rousing the Brazilian town's residents with the sound of broken glass, ...