Lifestyle

5 ways to keep your family safe when vacationing outdoors

Knowledge is power. So before you and the family head for the great outdoors, tune up your skills…

Lifestyle

Travel: Nashville, Tennessee

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The heart of this city of 680,000, not six blocks from the Tennessee State Capitol…

Lifestyle

In Mexico’s stunning Magdalena Bay, humans and gray whales meet up

MAGDALENA BAY, Mexico — Just off the bow of our 22-foot open boat — what Baja fishermen call…

Lifestyle

Travel: Oregon Vortex may be state’s weirdest spot

GOLD HILL — I see myself as an open-minded skeptic. At first glance I may not believe what…

Lifestyle

The unfolding story for residents of Vancouver, B.C.

Vancouver, British Columbia, has what you might call an improvisational air. The city makes itself up as it…

Lifestyle

Does an airline owe you money? This can help

Could it be true? Here’s a website and app that help you find money owed you by the…

Lifestyle

The next wave for Cuba tourism: cruises

Havana was exploding in yanqui frenzy. Seven hundred Americans streamed across its streets one steamy May 2016 morning…

Lifestyle

Baker City hotel offers glimpse of the cowboy lifestyle

BAKER CITY — Brandon Clark reined Blaze, his young quarter horse, to the left across a sagebrush plain.…

Lifestyle

From business to pleasure in Switzerland

By good luck, winter break was just days away at our second-grader’s public school as I flew Swiss…

Lifestyle

Travel: Bainbridge Island, Washington

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Washington — Seventy-five years ago this month, hundreds of Americans of Japanese ancestry were herded from…

Marketplace