Travel and commuting

In the span of less than a week recently, authorities arrested three pilots from two different airlines under suspicion of intoxication before they were about to fly. But despite the widespread...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia – Russia’s second city mixes ornate magnificence and cruel poverty. Vyacheslav Rasner straddles the extremes – becoming an unexpectedly popular tour guide after surviving a...

The government is telling airlines and passengers how it will enforce rules governing animals that people bring on planes. The Transportation Department said Thursday that airline employees can bar...

ROME – Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn perched there without a care in the 1953 film “Roman Holiday.” But the Spanish Steps in Rome are no longer a place for sitting. Enforcing an ordinance that...

When trying to sleep on a plane, the obstacles are stacked against you. The environment is loud, bright, crowded and uncomfortable. But while it most likely won’t be the same quality as at home, it...

BERLIN (AP) – The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island’s ice sheet and causing massive...

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...

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...

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...