With Conquest of Paradise booming over the loud speaker, it feels like Last Night of the Proms. Our ship is setting sail and the crew stage a light show for us and the other 89 passengers as we embark ...

The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...

The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might.

After a Week 7 in which we saw some unexpected results, we've had to reshuffle our Big Ten football power rankings.

The decades-long tradition isn't completely dead, but most central Iowa cities have moved away from trick-or-treating on Oct. 30 — known as Beggars' Night. Some, like Bondurant and Dallas Center, ...