“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has been a fixture on national TV every year since 1964. But not many people know that the animated narrator of the show has a direct connection to the Northwest. Burl ...

Burl Ives, who hoboed with Woody Guthrie and won Academy Awards, was that rare artist whose life was as interesting as the lives he sang about. Ives died yesterday morning at his Seattle home after a ...

Burl Ives, the beloved balladeer who sang so convincingly of being a Wayfaring Stranger that he instead became a longtime friend, died yesterday. The rotund folk singer, Academy Award-winning actor ...

It may surprise some people, but Burl Ives, one of the 2014 inductees into Terre Haute’s Walk of Fame, has a strong local connection. Born in 1909 to a farm family near Hunt City, Ill., about 50 miles ...