Mayor Michael Bloomberg and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn are backing a plan that would prohibit smoking at beaches, marinas, beaches, boardwalks and pedestrian plazas.   The ban would mean...

  Calling all Britons, the 2012 Olympics and Paralympic Games need your help. An organizing committee is hoping to recruit 70,000 volunteers and applications are currently available to the...

    Boeing expected to hire millions over the next 20 years   According to a statement released Wednesday, the commercial aviation industry will have to hire over a million pilots and...

  Oprah will host several shows at the famous Opera House   Oprah Winfrey’s generous gift to 300 fans, an all inclusive trip to Australia, is actually being paid for by the State of...

  Las Vegas to host airline conference   Tourism officials of Las Vegas have approved a deal to host a big airline industry conference in the United States for the first time in 2013....

Starting today, visitors entering the United States from 36 nations will have to fork over an additional $14 at the border. That's because the Travel Promotion Act, which was passed to raise funds to help...

  Cathay Pacific improves August traffic   Cathay Pacific Airways, and its subsidiary Dragonair, reported this week that it carried more than 2.42 million passengers in August 2010, up 9.7...

    Movieland at Niagara Falls   Niagara Falls isn’t really the kind of place you associate with Pirates of the Caribbean. Or with Batman, or Elvis, or even the Lord of the Rings....

    Denver airport is one of the greenest in the U.S.   Denver International Airport announced Tuesday it would be working on a new solar system with Constellation Energy Group Inc this...

One of the nation's busiest airports will be losing a runway for the next two weeks.   That's because crew members at New York's John F. Kennedy Airport will be installing new concrete on...

    For Oprah’s 25th and final season premier that aired on Monday, the outrageously successful talk-show host elated her audience with the announcement of a very special trip....

After numerous complaints from large customers, Universal Orlando has announced that they make alterations to the wildly popular "Harry and the Forbidden Journey" ride in order for it to be more...

    Airlines late more often in July than a year prior - however Hawaiian still shines   U.S. Airlines announced Monday that they were collectively late more often in July than a year...

A Nigerian man charged with attempting to blow up an international flight headed to Detroit, Michigan on Christmas day will be back in a federal courtroom today for the first time since January...