Cruise ship denizens got a taste of the “Cast Away” life when they were stranded near the island that served as the setting for the 2000 Tom Hanks film. The MV Fiji Princess, a small luxury liner that ...

WALDPORT, Ore. — A humpback whale that washed ashore on Oregon’s coast last year was suffering from multiple chronic illnesses, according to a newly released necropsy report from NOAA Fisheries. The ...

The risky, multiday mission to rescue two American airmen whose fighter jet was shot down, stranding them in Iranian territory, involved more than 150 aircraft, a close-range gunfight and a complex ...

A horse stranded in an overflowing creek in Marengo was rescued by first responders on Saturday morning following overnight storms. Marengo Fire and Rescue Districts officials said they were called ...

A humpback whale struggling in shallow waters off Germany's northern Baltic Sea coast has freed itself for a third time, a police spokesman told AFP on Tuesday. After initially saying the animal had ...

There are approximately 20,000 sailors stranded near the Strait of Hormuz — one of the world’s most strategic maritime routes — according to data compiled by the International Maritime Organization ...

BERLIN (AP) — A stranded humpback whale in Germany's Baltic Sea looks weaker, and experts fear it won't be able to find its way back to the Atlantic despite several attempts at its rescue this week. A ...

In an unexpected breakthrough, the 40-foot mammal was freed and swam to deeper water on Friday morning through a channel that rescuers had dug for it. By Jenny Gross Against the odds, a 40-foot ...

Experts say the whale’s condition is deteriorating as rescue attempts continue Daniel Bockwoldt/picture alliance via Getty A young humpback whale has been stranded in the Baltic Sea since March 23 ...

Two climbers were rescued Smith Rock State Park on March 23 after becoming stranded overnight on a ledge 400 feet above the ground. The men, both in their late 20s and visiting from Salem and Eugene, ...

A handwritten “SOS” message in the sand helped save two stranded Hawaii visitors as flash floods swept across Oahu, where Coast Guard and Navy crews also rescued five people and a dog from a rooftop.

A 55-year-old snowmobiler stranded in the blizzard that swept through the Upper Peninsula was rescued by Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officers and Luce County Sheriff deputies ...