Exploding whale fanatics will find a boatload of fun activities in Florence on Sunday, Nov. 16. There will be a 55-year ...

In the decades since, the “Exploding Whale” has gone from a cautionary tale to a beloved piece of Oregon lore. The 55th ...

Fifty-five years ago, the State of Oregon made history by blowing up an eight-ton whale carcass on a beach in Florence.

The explosion that sent huge chunks of whale blubber sailing into the sky is being brought to a whole new audience in a new ...

A Pennsylvania man is recovering after police say one of his dogs accidentally set off a shotgun and shot him in the back.

For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the number of nuclear weapons in the world is expected to increase: Russia has been expanding its arsenal, as has China.

It’s been 55 years since Oregon state officials’ plan to obliterate a beached whale that washed up near Florence ended with a ...

Despite that, and despite the fact that KATU’s remastered clip of the explosion—uploaded in 2020—has more than 22 million views on YouTube, the exploding whale still feels like a private joke among ...

Anyway, life imitates art, and just as Kathryn Bigelow’s new movie “A House of Dynamite,” which tracks a ballistic missile, ...

Footage from a dashcam showing a UPS cargo plane crashing and exploding with a large ball of fire and plumes of smoke rising.

Eager to clear a popular beach in the US of a beached sperm whale, local authorities hatched upon a dramatic solution on ...

DENVER (KDVR) — When a United Airlines flight was bombed with dynamite, exploding in the sky over Colorado 70 years ago and killing 44 people, the unprecedented act set the tone for future FBI ...