TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A pilot program placing salad bars in four Florida school districts was unveiled by the state's Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services and the Produce for Better Health ...

On the centennial of the Columbia River Bar Pilots’ founding, the Dec. 21, 1947 issues of the Sunday Oregonian and the Oregon Daily Journal ran celebratory features about the piloting history.

ASTORIA, Ore. — After a runaway cargo ship caused the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge last week, killing six people, there's understandably been some concerns about shipping and ...

Before the cargo ship Dali crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, crew members sent out a mayday signal, allowing first responders on the ground to block traffic from the bridge.

The Columbia River bar pilots are also one of the few pilot groups to use a helicopter, an Italian-made Agusta dubbed the Seahawk that can fly sideways at 45 knots, the better to maneuver onto ships ...

In December of 1994, the Columbia River Bar Pilots Association welcomed its first woman Bar pilot. Capt. Deborah Dempsey was “one of a dozen or so women in the United States with the highest mariner’s ...