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.

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 ...

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 ...

Recent storms that crossed the San Francisco Bay Area earlier this week left multiple vessels, docks, and barges adrift, causing navigational safety issues around the areaThree 60-foot deck barges ...

More than two years after a medically unfit bar pilot plowed a cargo ship into a Bay Bridge tower, the waterway remains vulnerable to further oil spills because other bar pilots may be unfit for duty.

The largest floating drydock in the United States, the Vigorous, has arrived at Vigor Industrial’s Portland shipyard. What’s happening? Vigor Industrial’s new floating drydock, the Vigorous, is headed ...

Founded in 1850, San Francisco Bar Pilots is one of the Bay Area's oldest businesses, trailing Boudin Bakery by one year. As the Gold Rush kicked off, Boudin supplied the flood of incoming miners with ...

Federal layoffs carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency and hiring freezes continue to hit Oregon as local offices of the National Weather Service are down to about 30% to 40% of their ...

The “bar” is a reference to a vast sand bar roughly 11 miles offshore, where oceangoing ships suddenly reach much shallower water. This is the rendezvous point where pilots climb aboard incoming ...

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.