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Nose to nose with polar bears on the continent’s edge

Clouds roiled on the horizon, saturated and spitting as six of us waited in the sterile anteroom of the Northern Alaska Tour Company’s aviation office in Fairbanks. A giant map of the state ...

DATE: Dec 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

This middle-class home attracts thousands

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian house moved to Arkansas

DATE: Dec 4, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

Wildlife officials offer tips for avoiding collisions

Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials are reminding drivers that with dusk arriving earlier as a result of the time change the chances increase for collisions with wildlife on the roads. ...

DATE: Nov 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Local News

Buddhist shrine, damaged in earthquake, reborn in Nepal

Private donations revive popular site

DATE: Nov 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

Airports add charges for taxis, limousines and Uber drivers

NEW YORK – Ever feel like the taxi ride from the airport costs more than the trip there? It’s not your imagination. Airports across the country add surcharges of up to ...

DATE: Nov 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

Travelers fight unfair treatment by reversing credit-card charges

For better or worse, travelers are turning to a last-ditch tactic to resolve their disagreements with airlines, car-rental companies or hotels: instigating credit-card disputes. C...

DATE: Nov 27, 2016 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Colorado ski train will roll again

Trips will leave from Denver beginning Jan. 7

DATE: Nov 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

How to plan your holiday vacations

Confidential to procrastinators: Thanksgiving is only a couple weeks away. Do you really want to wait until the last minute to plan your holiday travel? Not this year. You don’t n...

DATE: Nov 19, 2016 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

Sarajevo hostel offers guests a taste of life during war

SARAJEVO Bosnia-Herzegovina – A hostel in Bosnia is offering visitors a unique experience: the opportunity to live like civilians in a war zone. But at the Sarajevo War...

DATE: Nov 17, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

A short, but rich, tour of N.Y.’s Little Syria

For 60 years, a Manhattan home for Arab-Americans

DATE: Nov 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

Artists’ homes tell the story of visionary Hudson River School

NEW YORK On either side of the Hudson River, two artists’ homes tell the story of that famous genre of American landscape painting known as the Hudson River School. In...

DATE: Nov 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: Travel

Airlines’ service issues with unaccompanied minors unnerve parents

It’s a story that Carrie Calzaretta’s 14-year-old son, Tyler, will probably tell his kids someday. This summer, the Calzarettas paid American Airlines an extra $300 for their son ...

DATE: Nov 12, 2016 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter