The land of the Basque people, split between Spain and France, is a “nation without a state” — left off the map when they drew Europe’s national borders. The Basque Country is often left out of travel ...

Over a thousand people gathered in Boise’s Basque Block for the third day of Jaialdi. The Basque Block became a meeting ground for Basques, Basque-Americans and people who just wanted to join in on ...

BOISE, Idaho — 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 ...

The voice rang clear even as the din of Jaialdi and its hundreds, perhaps thousands, of attendees surrounded it. The older gentleman who called out waved his drink in the air, a smile splitting his ...

FOR years now at the height of summer I have been impelled northward toward the Basque country. And each time, on renewing contact with the hardy Basques, the same project is rekindled within me: to ...

Artifact restorer Carmen Usúa didn’t expect to rewrite linguistic history when she started cleaning mud off a hand-shaped bronze ornament from an Iron Age village back in January. Archaeologists from ...

Aug. 28—NEW LONDON — It's not every day that people from California and Utah whose parents grew up in nearby villages in the Basque Country find themselves gathered together in New London. And it's ...

Boise has waited 10 long years for this. Jaialdi is back and will be bigger than ever, starting Tuesday, July 29, and running until Sunday, Aug. 3. The COVID-19 pandemic sidelined the ...

In the middle of Nevada is a taste of France — specifically, French Basque cuisine. Nestled within Gardnerville, a town on the other side of the Carson Range from Lake Tahoe, is J.T. Basque Bar and ...

The clock strikes 11 on a breezy Tuesday morning, marking the start of another busy lunch shift at Ansots, a Basque restaurant in Boise, Idaho. The spot is a cornerstone of the local Basque immigrant ...