Air miles are becoming a precious commodity as uncertainty grows about the outlook for ticket prices and the availability of flights.

Frequent flyers are increasingly using their miles to hedge against global travel chaos by making overlapping bookings across different routes per trip, according to travel experts. Because award tickets ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom has spent nearly one out of every five days in his second term traveling outside California as he builds his national profile ahead of a widely expected presidential run, a Bay Area News Group analysis of scheduling emails sent by his office to reporters shows.

Newsom, who is term-limited early next year, has traveled more ...Read more

Delays and cancellations continued to plague LaGuardia Airport Wednesday, nearly three days after the fatal crash between an Air Canada jet and a rescue truck.

More than 300 flights into and out of the airport were canceled on Wednesday and more than 250 flights were delayed, according to information compiled by website FlightAware.

Meanwhile,...Read more

WASHINGTON — A pair of House Democratic lawmakers are questioning Trump administration officials about why a Canadian retiree was required to provide a DNA sample under the threat of jail time while trying to cross the Blue Water Bridge into Port Huron, Michigan.

Kevin Larson, 68, of Kincardine, Ontario, has no known criminal record and was ...Read more

The U.S. State Department urged Americans to leave countries across the Middle East, citing “serious safety risks” from the war with Iran.

The security update, posted Monday on X by Assistant Secretary of State for consular affairs Mora Namdar, told Americans to “depart now via commercial means.”

In a video posted on his own X account,...Read more

U.S. citizens in Puerto Vallarta and elsewhere in Jalisco and other states were urged by the U.S. Embassy in Mexico to shelter in place on Sunday as chaos erupted after the Mexican army killed the leader of the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes – known as “El Mencho”.

The killing set off hours of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom sat onstage at the Munich Security Conference in Germany on Friday and described one of the primary ways he is responding as the Trump administration shifts federal climate priorities.

"I'm showing up," he said.

In recent months, that has meant trips to Brazil, Switzerland and now Germany, where he ...Read more