Like spawning salmon, Alaska’s cruise industry has endured an upstream battle over the past few years. 2020’s cruise season in the Last Frontier was wiped out entirely due to something you might have heard of called COVID-19. In 2021, Alaska’s traditional half-yearlong cruise period raised anchor three months late, and it took another lifting —…
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By Justin Spike and Vanessa Gera | Associated Press TISZABECS, Hungary (AP) — Of the hundreds of refugees gathered on the grounds of a small village school in eastern Hungary, almost all are women and children who left their husbands, fathers, brothers and sons behind to fight in Ukraine’s resistance to the deadly Russian invasion.…
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Amy Poehler can’t recall the first time she saw “I Love Lucy” as a child. The series, which starred Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, just always seemed to exist, she says. “It felt like the show was always on,” Poehler says. “I don’t know if I remember the first time I watched it, but I…
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Maleah Miller, right, of Santa Ana helps Frankie Vargas, 7, of San Clemente cast her line into the water during the annual Youth Fishing Derby in San Clemente on Saturday, February 26, 2022. (Photo by Jeff Antenore, Contributing Photographer) Stone Lake, 9, of San Clemente finds some space to herself on a crowded San Clemente…
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With California ending mask mandates in schools and most pandemic restrictions fading away, we asked readers if they plan to continue with any of the protocols despite lifted mandates. We got many responses, more than 100 so far. And if you want to provide a response, you can do so here. Many of the responses…
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Whither Dianne Feinstein? California’s senior U.S. senator, a California political fixture for more than a half-century, was facing a turning point even before her husband, financier and philanthropist Richard Blum, died on Sunday of cancer. The Senate’s oldest member at 88 and the state’s longest serving senator has clearly fallen out of favor with voters,…
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As the United States and other Western nations respond to Russia’s disturbing invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden’s selection of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Stephen Breyer as a U.S. Supreme Court justice has gotten less attention than it has deserved. Jackson currently serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in…
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Sarah Blake’s “Clean Air” offers plenty for readers: It’s a dystopic novel set in the near future, a decade after The Turning – where tree pollen turns deadly and kills off vast swaths of the population, forcing everyone else to live inside or to wear protective masks outdoors. But it’s also a utopic novel, where…
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE NEW YORK (AP) — Oil prices soared Tuesday and investors shifted more money into ultra-safe U.S. government bonds as Russia stepped up its war on Ukraine. Stocks fell following a volatile day for major indexes as investors tried to measure how the conflict will impact the global economy. The S&P 500…
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Orange County medical programs that specialize in treating people with lingering COVID-19 symptoms have gotten a surge of new patients following each spike in infections or appearance of a new variant. As the omicron wave has begun to subside, some health professionals say their “long COVID” clinics are seeing younger patients than was typical earlier…
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