They've been a culture without a country for so long, it's little surprise that pockets of Basque life can be found throughout the West. They began arriving in the 1800s from Basque country, which ...

The California gold rush brought the first Basque immigrants to the United States in the 1840s. After the gold dried up, many of their descendants stayed in the Central Valley region, turning to the ...

BILBAO, Spain — When José Moreno, a Basque soldier, was captured in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, he was sentenced to death by one of the commanders in the army of Gen. Francisco Franco, the ...

But what Idaho Basques lack in raw numbers, they more than make up in concentration, visibility and distinctiveness. Basques began arriving here more than a century ago, flourishing as they integrated ...

Sheep, you may be surprised to learn, aren’t as dumb as they look. Some people might even describe them as calculating, crafty animals with fierce independent streaks. Given the slightest opening, for ...

BILBAO, Spain — The violent separatist group ETA was the clear loser in elections Sunday for a semiautonomous government in Spain’s Basque Country, but there was no outright winner of the bloodied ...

This story originally appeared in the Boise Weekly. For the first time in over a decade, thousands of people from around the world will gather in Boise’s Basque Block to celebrate Jaialdi. The six-day ...

Yet the 29-year-old actually holds the world’s stone-lifting record of 326 kilos, or 717 pounds, and in three days he’ll attempt a new mark of 327 before an entirely different audience: knowledgeable ...

David Etxebarria, Iban Mayo, Haimar Zubeldia, Joseba Beloki.... The Basque Country has been an epicenter of cycling and has produced many top riders over the years. However, it must be said that the ...