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SAN FRANCISCO – The sidewalks surrounding Ahmed Al Barak’s corner market in one of San Francisco’s roughest neighborhoods are filled with cardboard, used syringes and homeless people who have...
DATE: Aug. 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
LONDON – The fight to save the seas from plastic waste may mean the end for mini bottles of shampoo and other toiletries that hotel guests love to stuff into their luggage. The owner of Holiday Inn...
DATE: Aug. 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
Cheyenne is one of the country’s least centrally located state capitals. In Wyoming’s southeast corner, it’s 430 miles from my home in the state’s northwest corner. Cheyenne has an airport, but...
DATE: July 28, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
NEW YORK – They literally don’t see it coming. “Clear-air turbulence,” which evidently jolted an Air Canada flight earlier this month over the Pacific Ocean, strikes almost literally out of the...
DATE: July 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
DALLAS – Imagine flying your mother’s ashes home and instead finding them spilled in your checked suitcase. A few travelers have shared horror stories about trying to carry the cremated remains of...
DATE: July 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
BERLIN – Europeans cooled off in public fountains Wednesday as a new heat wave spread across parts of the continent and is already breaking records. Belgium registered its highest-ever temperature...
DATE: July 24, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
Tourists first started flocking to Chernobyl nearly 10 years ago, when fans of the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. wanted to see firsthand the nuclear wasteland they’d visited in virtual reality. Next...
DATE: July 21, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
Summer vacation has its perks, but landing good deals on flights isn’t necessarily one of them. For those who can plan their leisure trips for later in the year, the rewards include smaller crowds,...
DATE: July 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
JOHANNESBURG – The World Health Organization says the deadly Ebola virus outbreak in northeastern Congo is now an international health emergency . More than 1,600 people have died since August in...
DATE: July 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The National Park Service has completed a project to relieve an Alaska traffic jam. A new elevated bridge and boardwalk across the Brooks River in Katmai National Park and...
DATE: July 16, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
NYKOPING, Sweden – School’s out for summer and Swedish lawyer Pia Bjorstrand, her husband and their two sons are shouldering backpacks, ready to board the first of many trains on a whistle-stop...
DATE: July 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
LE BOURGET, France – Battery-powered planes, solar planes, hydrogen planes – jet makers are working on myriad ways to make flying less damaging to the planet. Yet clean flying on a mass scale...
DATE: July 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel
