Travel - The Durango Herald

Europe’s sunny weather makes for wet summer in Iceland

REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Pop singer Helgi Bjornsson, who is well-known in his native Iceland for a 1980s hit titled “I Do Like the Rain,” recently appeared on national television while a deadpan...

DATE: Jul 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Hawaii bans sale of sunscreens with coral-harming chemicals

HONOLULU (AP) – Hawaii Gov. David Ige on Tuesday signed legislation that will ban the sale of sunscreens containing two chemicals believed to harm coral reefs. The move makes Hawa...

DATE: Jul 3, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Leaving technology behind on vacation in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Children are welcome at Iron Stone Acres, the bed-and-breakfast that Sharon Zimmerman has been running for nearly 30 years in rural Narvon, Pennsylvania, but they’ll need to entertain themse...

DATE: Jul 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

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

SOCHI, Russia – Warm weather, beaches, amusement parks. It’s not exactly what Australian fan Adam McKinley expected to find when he decided to make the trip to Russia for the Worl...

DATE: Jul 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

In a Pennsylvania forest, on the trail of synchronous fireflies

Pennsylvania festival attracts people from around the world

DATE: Jun 30, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Oregon officials criticized for pesticides killing pines

BEND, Ore. – Environmental advocates are calling out the Oregon Department of Transportation and its contractors for applying a weedkiller along a highway in Sisters that unintentionally kil...

DATE: Jun 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Utah national parks seeing increase in search and rescues

SALT LAKE CITY – Rescues at Utah’s national parks are up 68 percent from 2014 – and men in their 20s are the ones most likely to need help, according to recent data. Most of the s...

DATE: Jun 29, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Delta bans pit bulls as service dogs, sparks backlash

ATLANTA – Delta Air Lines says it’s no longer allowing passengers to fly with “pit bull type” dogs as service or support animals, a policy that’s being met with criticism by groups that trai...

DATE: Jun 27, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

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

In December 1942, Secretary of War Henry Stimson ordered the director of the remote Los Alamos Ranch School in northern New Mexico to shut down the elite school. Stimson wrote in ...

DATE: Jun 24, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Germany turns former coal mines into vast lakeside resorts

GROSSRAESCHEN, Germany – As the sun beats down on a small vineyard by the rippling waters of Grossraeschen Lake, there’s little sign of the vast wound that lies beneath. Meuro, th...

DATE: Jun 22, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Dig it: Archaeologists scour Woodstock ’69 concert field

BETHEL, N.Y. – Archaeologists scouring the grassy hillside famously trampled during the 1969 Woodstock music festival carefully sifted through the dirt from a time of peace, love, protest an...

DATE: Jun 21, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Airlines ask U.S. not to put migrant children on flights

DALLAS – American Airlines and United Airlines said Wednesday that they asked the Trump administration not to use their flights to carry migrant children who were separated from their parent...

DATE: Jun 20, 2018 | CATEGORY: Travel

Photos: Local girls high school wrestling at La Plata TriDurango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Durango girls wrestling went 2-0 to win Tri on Thursday night at Bayfield

Photos: Fort Lewis College women’s and men’s basketball take on Westminster UniversityBoth Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Both Skyhawks teams were victorious on Saturday afternoon

Photos: An afternoon in 2004 with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell as he works on Capitol HillDurango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Durango Herald Photo Editor Jerry McBride had the chance to spend an afternoon with the late Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell in 2004, photographing him during meetings and around the Capitol.

Photos and video: ICE protests return to DurangoAbout a dozen protesters tried to block federal agents from leaving with a detainee on Thursday