Author – The Durango Herald

Virus lockdown gives Venice a shot at reimagining tourism

VENICE, Italy – In Venice, a city famous for being visited by too many and home to too few, children’s play now fills neighborhood squares, fishermen sell their catch to home cooks and water...

DATE: May 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Travel

Fast-moving glacier threatens valley in Mont Blanc massif

MILAN – Italian officials sounded an alarm Wednesday over climate change due to the threat that a fast-moving melting glacier is posing to a picturesque valley near the Alpine town of Courma...

DATE: Sep 25, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Cleaner and greener: Milan’s ambitious plan to plant 3 million trees

MILAN – If Italy’s fashion capital has a predominant color, it is gray – not only because of the blocks of neoclassical stone buildings for which the city is celebrated, but also because of ...

DATE: Jan 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Italy approves mandatory vaccine program

Number of children vaccinated has plummeted in last 20 years

DATE: Jul 28, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Tennis stars take game to Armani

MILAN – If even Giorgio Armani has a negligee-inspired dress, then baby doll looks are definitely a trend. Armani’s take featured a layer of black sheer pleating over a dark flor...

DATE: Sep 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Lauren Hutton revisits ‘American Gigolo’ for Bottega Veneta

MILAN – Milan designers are keeping it clean for next season. Many collections have a girl-next-door gleam, with an underpinning of sexy. The silhouettes are fresh and there is si...

DATE: Sep 24, 2016 | CATEGORY: Arts and Entertainment

Cyberbully case could lead to charges

MILAN – Italian prosecutors in Naples have opened a criminal investigation of the suicide of a 31-year-old woman who had fought unsuccessfully to have a video showing her having sex expunged...

DATE: Sep 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

France boosts security after Nice attack

Some still searching hospitals for missing loved ones

DATE: Jul 16, 2016 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Toyota launches hydrogen-fueled sedan

FRANKFURT, Germany – Toyota is taking the next step in its quest for carbon-free travel with the launch of the Mirai hydrogen-fueled sedan. The Japanese brand that pioneered the h...

DATE: Sep 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Business

EU foreign ministers to meet after latest migrant tragedy

MILAN – Rescue crews searched Monday for survivors and bodies from what could be the Mediterranean’s deadliest migrant tragedy ever as hundreds more migrants took to the sea undeterred and E...

DATE: Apr 20, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

UN concerns grow after refugee ship capsizes

MILAN – The feared drowning of 400 migrants in a shipwreck this week in the Mediterranean Sea – one of the deadliest such tragedies in the last decade – raised alarms Wednesday amid an unpre...

DATE: Apr 15, 2015 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Court says Knox killed her roommate

MILAN – The Italian appeals court that reinstated the conviction against Amanda Knox in her roommate’s 2007 murder said in a lengthy reasoning made public Tuesday that Knox herself delivered...

DATE: Apr 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Nation & World