travel

At last, summer vacation time is here. If you haven’t started planning, it’s not too late. There’s a lot of summer ahead of us, and you can still find time to get out of town with your family before school starts back up again. Just make sure you you don’t fall into a few common traps and you’ll have the best vacation ever.

Thinking about taking a few days off for the Fourth of July holiday? If your plans involve a plane ticket, travel experts say now’s the best time to buy.

Airlines may be making less money on baggage fees now than in years past, but that doesn’t mean carriers aren’t trying. In fact, United Airlines just raised the price of checking a second bag on transatlantic flights.

It looks like with the summer season just about in full swing travelers are taking it to the city with their vacation plans.

Now that summer is officially here, the time has come to start getting serious about where you plan to take that family vacation.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — AAA predicts about 1.6 percent more residents in mountain states will take trips this Memorial Day weekend compared with last year. AAA expects about 2.5 million residents of Montana, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming to travel at least 50 miles over the holiday, mostly by car...

The more the price of gas creeps up in Missoula and across the country, the more I cringe at the thought of ever having wasted a single drop.

This week we go behind the headlines for a visit to Normandy, France.  The look and feel is a lot like the American midwest.  And, Normandy is full of interesting people. BAYEUX, with its perfectly preserved medieval ensemble, magnificent cathedral and world-famous tapestry, is a great place to start our visit...

Last year, airlines in the US posted their highest profits in more than a decade — but all that money sure didn’t buy a lot of customer satisfaction.

Airline companies continue inventing new ways to nickel-and-dime their passengers, which begs the question, will there ever come a point when customers stand up and say, enough is enough?