As a tidal wave of cholera rolled across Asia, Africa and Europe, the Tribune reported on Dec. 14, 1853, that the dreaded disease had reached the East Coast. Its victims were immigrants who died ...

In northern Luzon a Japanese retreat was developing into something resembling a rout. After three months of defense in the incredibly difficult mountains, the pride of Japan’s Philippine Army had had ...

So it comes down to two kinds of engineering. One is narrowly production-oriented, lacks imagination and adventure, and tastes like Brussels sprouts. There's no elan or eclat, but mere trudging in the ...

The War in Iraq may prove costly for the town of Butner. The Army Corps of Engineers dropped a bombshell on the cleanup of World War II ammunition. They said the Department of Defense can only afford ...

"The (PulverDryer) system has to work or we go no further," Battle Creek Wastewater Superintendent Rich Beardslee said in an April 21, 2015, email to the company's CEO Lee New, "and we have come way ...

Anthony Levandowski, the autonomous tech engineer who was at the center of a prominent court battle between Google‘s self-driving venture Waymo and ride-sharing provider Uber, has started a new ...

Someday, Mountlake Terrace juniors Brandon Crader and Derek Burkett could be designing airplanes, a bridge or a fuel-efficient car. Crader and Burkett, the captains of the Mountlake Terrace Robotics ...

Uber has fired Anthony Levandowski, the star engineer at the center of the company’s fight with self-driving rival Waymo. Levandowski — a former Waymo employee who until recently was leading Uber’s ...

There was a television show in the 70's that became very popular, though you'd be hard pressed to find even one copy of it intact today. It was The World Tomorrow, a religious program that, at that ...