Travel

With frozen dirt road crunching under the car tires, my longtime fishing buddy (and paleontologist) Mike and I pull out of the driveway of my family cottage in New Hampshire for the hour drive north east toward the White Mountains , where an invite we’ve long coveted has us giddy. It’s to sit on a […]

The European Central Bank says it’s restricting all nonessential travel by members of its executive board and employees through April 20 amid the global coronavirus outbreak March 4, 2020, 9:30 AM 2 min read BANGKOK — The Latest on the virus outbreak (all times local): 4:15 p.m. The European Central Bank says it’s restricting all

It’s getting harder to take a truly bad photo on a good smartphone. Thanks to better lenses, robust processors and integrated computational photography software to process images under the hood, even scenes in low-light, no-flash situations that used to be hopelessly murky can now turn out nicely. Your phone’s native camera app makes it simple

Amazon and other big companies are trying to keep their employees healthy by banning business trips, but they’ve dealt a gut punch to a travel industry already reeling from the virus outbreak. The Seattle-based online retail giant has told its nearly 800,000 workers to postpone any non-essential travel within the United States or around the

Some airlines and hotels are adjusting their usual cancellation policies as the fast-spreading coronavirus forces travelers to reconsider their trips March 4, 2020, 8:24 AM 4 min read The fast-spreading coronavirus is forcing travelers to reconsider their trips. As of Tuesday, the virus has sickened more than 92,000 people and 3,100 have died. The U.S.

This week, thousands of people will travel to Las Vegas for business conferences. The annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Tex., is scheduled for this month. After that comes spring break, summer vacation, the Olympics in Japan. When the coronavirus first broke out in China in January, the disruption to the hospitality industry —

When a video of Naomi Campbell cleaning her airplane seat and wearing a mask and gloves was shared online last year, it made the rounds because her behavior seemed exaggerated. (“Clean everything you touch,” Ms. Campbell said in the video.) Major airlines, including Delta Air Lines and American Airlines, say they clean their planes to

The United Auto Workers is seeking $1.29 million for the Michigan vacation home of its former president March 3, 2020, 4:38 PM 1 min read DETROIT — The United Auto Workers is seeking $1.29 million for the Michigan vacation home of its former president. The Detroit News reports that the home’s design plan included granite

When the Brooklyn Book Festival, considered the East Coast’s largest free literary event, started in 2006, “I saw only about 10 literary festivals in the United States,” said Liz Koch, the co-producer. “Now, there are more than double that, with smaller regional ones that many don’t even know about.” The best-selling author Sue Miller believes

A third of Grenada, about 100 miles north of Venezuela, is agricultural, with top exports including nutmeg, cocoa and mace, with cinnamon, turmeric and other spices also being cultivated. Many farms on the oval-shaped island were once devoted primarily to nutmeg, a top export and so important to the country it appears on the national