Sharon and Ed Wortman, authors of Big and Awesome Bridges of Portland and Vancouver, shared fascinating facts about some of Portland's most historic and beautiful bridges. Regional in scope, Big & ...

The Big & Awesome Bridges of Portland & Vancouver is a book that gets young kids excited about science and engineering and provides teachers a comprehensive resource for developing engaging elementary ...

Test your Portland bridge IQ with this graphic and the two-part quiz below. (Dan Aguayo/The Oregonian) The new book "Big & Awesome Bridges of Portland & Vancouver" will soon be in front of local ...

Sharon Wood Wortman has been Portland’s “Bridge Lady” for more than two decades. She’s the author of “The Portland Bridge Book,” with her bridge engineer husband, Ed Wortman. She has led bridge ...

Leon Bridges gave an unplanned performance on a Bishop Arts street corner Sunday, drawing a crowd of fans who stopped to hear him play. Jayce McCann Shoppers and diners might have heard some of the ...

London's Paddington area has a new drawbridge that only looks like an enormous metal folding fan. To allow boats to wade past on Fridays, Knight Architects and structural engineers AKT II created a ...

More than a city of Lakes, Minneapolis is a city of bridges. We have so many that we have spares, like the Third Avenue and 10th Avenue bridges, both crossing the Mississippi River just blocks from ...

MACKINAW CITY, MI – The Mackinac Bridge is always breathtaking to look at. But on Friday, Oct. 16 there was a little something extra to wow motorists heading between Michigan’s two peninsulas. A ...

UNESCO is looking at adding another Indian locale to its prestigious index of World Heritage Sites -- Meghalaya's Living Root-Bridges. Please click on the images for glimpses of Meghalaya's Living ...

Some actors get started young. Drew Barrymore was rocketed to super stardom as a seven-year-old in ET, Jake Lloyd had the unenviable task of playing a nine-year-old Darth Vader in The Phantom Menace, ...