Travel and commuting

Scenic California highway near Big Sur reopens after slide

The newly built, two-lane stretch of road in Big Sur opened two days ahead of schedule, the California Department of…

July 19, 2018

Archaeologists find ancient pottery workshop in Egypt

Thursday’s statement by the Antiquities Ministry says the workshop is situated close to the Nile River in Aswan province in…

July 19, 2018

Travel

California woman describes finding cliff plunge survivor

This Friday, July 13, 2018, photo by Chad Moore shows 23-year-old Angela Hernandez of Portland, Ore., after she survived a…

July 18, 2018

The Travel Troubleshooter

How to keep a big group from smothering your trip

Most hotels and cruise lines try to balance the needs of groups and those of individual guests. When all goes…

July 15, 2018

Travel

Psychology museum explores what makes us human

Oddities, insights from past to present

July 15, 2018

Travel

Tourists explore an abandoned Chinese ‘ghost village’ engulfed by nature

This is Houtouwan – “Back Bay” in Mandarin – an abandoned fishing village engulfed by nature on the far eastern…

July 14, 2018

Travel

Tracing Nelson Mandela’s footsteps 100 years after his birth

Visitors can follow in Mandela’s footsteps from the villages where he was born and raised, to the Soweto township where…

July 13, 2018

Travel

Show tells backstory of icons like Rushmore, Lady Liberty

You’ll hear the inside story on these icons and others from Geoffrey Baer, host of the PBS television series “10…

July 11, 2018

Travel

Feminists, animal rights groups reshape Pamplona bull fest

It’s not a full-blown identity crisis yet, but the festival in northern Spain popularized by American novelist Ernest Hemingway and…

July 9, 2018

The Travel Troubleshooter

Why are you tuning out preflight safety announcements?

Apparently, I am not alone. If you saw photos of the depressurized cabin on Southwest Airlines Flight 1380, which suffered…

July 8, 2018

Travel

In Idaho, Plan B turns into a rewarding journey

My husband and I came up with the spur-of-the-moment itinerary on a road-trip out west last September. We’d planned on…

July 8, 2018

Travel

Surprising Montana: See glaciers before they vanish, discover Chinese history in Butte

Wrong on all counts. The Going-to-the-Sun Road is fully open as of early July but when my husband and I…

July 7, 2018

Travel

Europe’s sunny weather makes for wet summer in Iceland

People walk on Nautholsvik, an artificial beach in temperatures of 50 Fahrenheit in Reykjavik, Iceland. The people of Reykjavik do…

July 6, 2018

Travel

Hawaii bans sale of sunscreens with coral-harming chemicals

Hawaii Gov. David Ige applauds after signing legislation in Honolulu on Tuesday, July 3, 2018, banning the sale of sunscreens…

July 3, 2018

Travel

Leaving technology behind on vacation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Sharon Zimmerman passes through the cow pasture at Iron Stone Acres on her way to the property’s swimming pond. Local…

July 2, 2018

The Travel Troubleshooter

Got a complaint about the travel industry? Take it to the top

When I started advocating for consumers more than 20 years ago, executive email addresses often were dead ends. Managers would…

July 1, 2018

Travel

Russia’s Winter Olympic city turns into a World Cup playground

On the Black Sea, Sochi is Russia’s summertime playground and looks more like Southern California or Miami Beach than Siberia.…

July 1, 2018

Travel

In a Pennsylvania forest, on the trail of synchronous fireflies

Pennsylvania festival attracts people from around the world

June 30, 2018

Travel

Oregon officials criticized for pesticides killing pines

Environmentalists argued that the various groups involved in the project didn’t abide by instructions on the chosen herbicide from the…

June 29, 2018

Travel

Utah national parks seeing increase in search and rescues

Most of the search and rescues from last year involved male hikers in their 20s, according to statistics from the…

June 29, 2018

Travel

Delta bans pit bulls as service dogs, sparks backlash

Delta Air Lines The company says it’s no longer allowing passengers to fly with “pit bull type” dogs as service…

June 27, 2018

Local News

Photo: After Clean Commute Week rolls out, smoke cancels events

Officer Ron Wysocki with the Durango Police Department escorts cyclists down Main Avenue on Monday during the Paul Wilbert Memorial…

June 26, 2018

The Travel Troubleshooter

Critics question influence of airline perks on Congress

That’s because airlines allow members of Congress and their staff to book fully refundable fares at about the same rate…

June 24, 2018

Travel

Atomic New Mexico: Exploring the origins of America’s radioactive history

Stimson wrote in a letter that the land was being acquired by the U.S. government for “military purposes.” But school…

June 24, 2018