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Barbara Hillary, the first black woman on record to reach the North Pole, which she did at the age of 75, and the first to reach the South Pole, at the age of 79, died on Saturday in a hospital in Far Rockaway, Queens. She was 88. Her death was announced on her website. A […]

Heavy snow and wind shut down highways Tuesday in Colorado and Wyoming, prompted school closures in Nebraska and forced more than 1,000 travelers to sleep overnight in Denver’s airport after hundreds of flights were canceled just as the intense Thanksgiving week travel period went into high gear. That storm headed next to South Dakota, Iowa,

How could the task of cleaning a hotel room possibly evolve? The duties seem pretty standard: Make the bed, change the towels, vacuum, put new soap by the sink. It turns out that much is shifting about how hotel chains run their housekeeping departments. Companies are looking at ways to make the departments run more

MONTREAL — Irwin Shlafman, the owner of Fairmount Bagel, boasts that his bagels were the first in outer space, when his astronaut cousin brought them to the International Space Station. He also says Fairmount, founded in 1919, is the oldest bagel joint in town. Just don’t tell that to his arch-bagel-rival, Joe Morena, the jovial

A storm that has dumped heavy snow in Colorado and Wyoming has forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights during the busy Thanksgiving week travel period and has made driving impossible in some areas November 26, 2019, 3:57 PM 3 min read The Latest on the wintry weather in the U.S. (all times local): 8:55

By any measure, Reiko Suzuki was leading a great life. She’d lived in the United States, had a solid job with a major Japanese company, a husband and two children, and she enjoyed downhill skiing with her family every winter. But then she became obsessed with a mountain. Mount Yotei is a stunning volcano that

“We never really planned on living here long term. We wanted to give it a try for a while. But we can’t live the lifestyle that we live here anywhere else,” Mr. Thompson said. And that goes beyond the cost of living, he explained. “When I grew up in Australia, kids would go off and

Dappled sunlight kisses the valley floor of Yosemite National Park. Granite monoliths, gushing waterfalls and giant sequoias abound. The wilderness is calling. But instead of hitting the trails in a place John Muir called “by far the grandest of all the special temples of nature,” you’re sitting in a traffic jam, vying for limited parking.

Northern Arizona tribes overwhelmingly against proposals to dam the Little Colorado River for hydropower November 25, 2019, 6:58 PM 1 min read Native American tribes in northern Arizona overwhelmingly oppose proposals to dam the Little Colorado River for hydropower. Phoenix-based Pumped Hydro Storage company is seeking preliminary permits from the federal government to study the

At least five people died as floods slammed cities and towns along the French and Italian coasts November 25, 2019, 11:09 AM 1 min read Officially say at least five people died as heavy rain slammed the Riviera coasts of France and Italy, trapping travelers in their cars. Some roads remained closed Monday on the