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Tourists preserve Italian frescoes during two-week program

“Is it OK,” I asked, “to put my hand here?” “Here” was Jesus’ brown hair, on a 700-year-old fresco of the crucifixion, in a cave church in Puglia, Italy. In the fresco, Jesus’ eye...

DATE: Feb 2, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Durango airport plans to purchase property for expansion

City, county must approve $3.9 million deal, which includes 12.5 acres and 2 buildings

DATE: Feb 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Wet storm will bring a mix of snow and rain this weekend

Second system expected to arrive late Monday, early Tuesday

DATE: Feb 1, 2019 | CATEGORY: Local News

Shutdown halted crash probes, could cost critical evidence

DETROIT – The 35-day partial government shutdown stopped the National Transportation Safety Board from dispatching investigators to 22 accidents that killed 30 people, jeopardizing some peri...

DATE: Jan 28, 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

The shutdown may yet make a mess of your trip

Ask travelers about the partial government shutdown, and you may get a dismissive answer. After all, most flights are still running on time, many national parks remain open and passports are...

DATE: Jan 27, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

The energy of Sedona: Beauty, mystique draw visitors to Arizona desert

SEDONA, Ariz. I suppose I shouldn’t have taken the parking attendant’s advice so literally. “You’ll know it when you feel it,” he had told me when I asked where I’d fi...

DATE: Jan 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Trump’s Cuba policy hurts private sector, report says

HAVANA – President Donald Trump’s Cuba policy is driving millions of dollars from the island’s private entrepreneurs to its state-run tourism sector, the opposite of its supposed goal, accor...

DATE: Jan 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Hotels sweat the details of workouts for guests

It wasn’t the price or the points or the location that most influenced Ruth Furman to book a stay at the Holiday Inn Express Waikiki in Honolulu last summer. It was the yoga. Namely, the fre...

DATE: Jan 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

When alcohol fuels trouble at 36,000 feet

On a recent Delta Air Lines flight from Newark to Minneapolis, a passenger seated near Stephanie Wolkin downed five mini-bottles of vodka in rapid succession. By the time the plane landed, t...

DATE: Jan 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: The Travel Troubleshooter

In Iceland, police say foreign drivers court trouble looking for Northern Lights

AKUREYRI, Iceland – Police in Iceland have a warning for visitors: Beware our roads in the winter. Spending a clear winter night under an Arctic sky lit up by spectacular streaks ...

DATE: Jan 19, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel

Heavy smog, worsened by weather, raises alarm across Asia

BANGKOK – Unusually high levels of smog worsened by weather patterns are raising alarm across Asia, with authorities in Thailand’s hazy capital Bangkok handing out face masks and preparing t...

DATE: Jan 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Travel