TSA agents at Salt Lake City International Airport were in for a surprise after finding what appeared to be a human skull in a passenger's luggage earlier this month.
12.09.2023 - 18:43 / travelpulse.com / Rich Thomaselli
The state of Utah has taken the first steps and applied for grants for a railroad line that goes directly from Salt Lake City to Las Vegas.
Utah's Department of Transportation is working together with the Nevada Department of Transportation, Amtrak, and the Idaho Transportation Department to bring rail service back. The idea is a route from Las Vegas to Salt Lake City and then up to Boise
To be clear, although the idea has been discussed for years, it is only in the planning stages right now.
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TSA agents at Salt Lake City International Airport were in for a surprise after finding what appeared to be a human skull in a passenger's luggage earlier this month.
Loyalty is strong. But loyalty is fragile.
It’s just past dusk on the Las Vegas Strip and traffic has come to a standstill. That’s usual for a weekend night, but this is Monday.
There’s a season of luck at Las Vegas’ Harry Reid International Airport as several travelers have hit the jackpot.
Las Vegas is gearing up for its first-ever Formula One race on November 18 by building a temporary street track. In the lead-up months, as popular attractions are blocked by construction and scaffolding, some tourists regret the timing of their visits to the city.
Size matters in Dubai, home to the world’s tallest building, the largest water park, and just because it can, the world’s largest “frame.” Already chief among the other six emirates in hotel development, Dubai is charging ahead with yet more rooms.
At the beginning of 2023, we told you Las Vegas was about to have a banner year, and over the course of three trips to Las Vegas this year, I've seen that start to play out with my very own eyes.
23 years in the making, Fontainebleau Las Vegas will feature 3,644 rooms, 36 restaurants, and 150,000 square feet of gaming space.
When people talk about financial safety in Vegas, they’re usually talking about knowing when to walk away from the blackjack table. Recently, however, protecting your finances in Sin City has taken on a whole new (and even more serious) meaning. Over the past few weeks, some of Vegas’s biggest hotels and casinos were hit by a group of hackers who brought down gaming machines, disrupted websites, and stole a variety of personal guest and employee data at both MGM and Caesars, according to TechCrunch. The breach affected properties not only in Vegas, but the companies’ holdings around the world.
I've been to Vegas more times than I can count.
Terry and Al Hershey can afford to live anywhere they please after their successful careers—she in the corporate offices of Time Warner, he running businesses in medical device manufacturing and contract research and development. So, when they loaded up their 34-foot RV at their Bonita Springs, Florida home and hit the road to scout a second retirement locale, they headed to what might sound like a surprising place: Traverse City, Michigan, a small town (population 16,000) 250 miles northwest of Detroit, that sits on a bay opening to Lake Michigan. In 2021, the Hersheys moved into a 132-year-old, 5-bedroom Victorian three blocks from Grand Traverse Bay, where they spend six months a year with their goldendoodle and Aussiedoodle. Now both 76, they hike, bike, kayak and motorboat and can choose from scores of musical performances a year at the nearby Interlochen Center for the Arts and by the Traverse Symphony Orchestra. “We wanted a summer base,” Terry explains. Why not spend all year in Traverse City? They don’t mind the cold (they lived for many years in Colorado), but find the lack of sunshine during the winters in Traverse City too dreary, she says.
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