In just a few years, a publisher based in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, has become the country’s fourth-largest newspaper operator.

In eastern Thailand, 5,000 pigeons brave predators and exhaustion in a gruelling sprint for a US$2 million purse Somewhere on ...

The beady-eyed athletes scan an unfamiliar wind-swept prairie from behind the starting gate. Peter Tudor, a member of the Omaha Racing Pigeon Association, holds up a pigeon from his breeding loft, ...

The Pigeon Fanciers Convention is returning to Blackpool in just 10 days.

Just as the sun begins to peek over the flat horizon of Coon Rapids, Iowa, 1,383 pigeons fill the sky. The birds pour out as a single winged mass from the rows of flung-open coops on the transport ...

Pricey high-nutrient meals, early-morning training sessions, weekly competitions across the state — all of it intended to give them a chance at glory in the Grain Belt Classic. Suddenly, the gate ...

LIMBURG, Belgium — The Chinese businessmen arrived in the Belgian countryside driving luxury sports cars, ferrying translators and bags of cash. When they parked in front of Tom Van Gaver’s small ...

Allen Small was 9 years old when he bought his first pigeon for 25 cents. That was 70 years ago. Now, after spending tens of thousands of dollars and nearly a lifetime breeding and racing the birds, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Peter Bennett has been a pigeon photographer for 50 years. Backstage in an old ballroom at Blackpool’s British Homing ...

And some of the very best were in Van Gaver's backyard. Beginning in around 2019, wealthy Chinese industrialists started spending millions on Belgian pigeons. That year, a pigeon named Armando sold ...

A military medal awarded to a racing pigeon for his heroic wartime exploits is coming home to Furness after it was bought on behalf of the Dock Museum in Barrow. The Dickin Medal, considered the ...

Before the internet and telephone, societies relied on homing pigeons to relay important news across long distances. Here are three classic examples. Homing pigeons–which are pigeons trained by humans ...