The state is giving away $100 gas cards each week in hopes of encouraging people to visit.

¦ FLAT OUT PASSENGERS flying LAN's new business class to South America may now stretch their legs. The airline is celebrating 50 years in the air with an overhaul of its entire fleet. Flights out of JFK now feature improved interiors, including a...

STANDING by the side of Rochester's Culver Road, I realize that while the map says I am still in New York - specifically, on the southern shoreline of Lake Ontario - I have to admit that I do not recognize the surroundings at all. Strange. A native...

NOT since the Hindenburg had there been an air disaster quite as epic as "Connexion," Boeing's now-defunct inflight Internet service.An ironic name, since hardly a soul did - connect, that is. Tested on a handful of international carriers back in...

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What's your favorite place to send people in Germany? You have got to go to Bergisch Gladbach, my hometown. It's really cute. But what I really love is Munich, because I love Bavarian foods . . . the strudel, the schnitzel and the knudel, which are...

1) BIG ISN'T BETTER The vibrant border city of Kingston, Ontario, is more than the sum of its parts, containing a historic downtown; a major university (and therefore, a vibrant nightlife); Fort Henry, an impressive UNESCO World Heritage Site; plus...

The faint sound of cannon fire, firsthand accounts, the famous cry, ``Remember the Alamo!'' Millions of people come each year to the site of one of the most famous battles in history, where they stand in the mission-turned-fort that, for a while anyway, held off the Mexican army. They read about the fight, see artifacts from the time and are urged to never forget what happened.

Biking a mile from the bed and breakfast into downtown Anchorage seemed pretty straightforward -- until the owner stopped me on the way out the door.