North America Travel News

Jetpac, a startup known for its beautiful "social travel" iPad app has been analyzing millions of Instagram photos to uncover all kinds of interesting things about life in the U.S. For instance, it looked at pictures of people smiling and laughing to come up with this list of the 20 happiest cities in the U.S, posted below.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your cash registers. December means it's the heart of the holiday shopping season, and while Canadians increasingly rely on e-commerce , there's no need to give mall merchants the Tiny Tim treatment yet.

Golightly Media, in conjunction with goldVE Management, are proud to announce the arrival of alt-rockers, Faulkner in New York City.

During the holiday season, most Chicago visitors go shopping on the Magnificent Mile and strap on ice skates at Millennium Park.

Listen to great music by the Bobby Seals Whiskey River Band, relish in a delicious meal by Costa's Catering and enjoy an evening of fun, cheer and a chance to win a fabulous raffle gift.

A Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday found that the U.S. economy held steady during the 16-day partial government shutdown, growing moderately in most regions from October through late November.

The U.S. Secretary of Education is visiting Las Vegas to tour schools and discuss the president's college ratings system.

Metro-North commuters in Greenburgh and the Rivertowns continued to adjust schedules and routes to and from New York City on Tuesday and into Wednesday due to service interruption after Sunday's train derailment in the Bronx.

Las Vegas, where the only design rule seems to be that everything must mirror something else, is getting a new mall modeled on Istanbul's Grand Bazaar.

In this Nov. 7, 2013 photo, Rick Destito poses near the "Before I Die" wall he painted on the former factory building he owns in Syracuse, N.Y. The inscription on the building invites passers-by to complete the sentence: "Before I die, I want to..." The phenomenon became global since artist Candy Chang created the first wall on an abandoned house ... (more)

Emirates, which has often picked up the Oscars of the travel industry, has swooped into the home of the original Oscars to launch its celebrated A380 service.

America really is the land of the automobile a nation of gas guzzlers, and the spiritual home of the road trip.

This 2012 photo released by the American Museum of Natural History in New York shows a diorama at the museum depicting American bison and pronghorn antelope, created in 1942.

The Mexico City government launched this week a seasonal holidays' aid program for visitors, that it's good to take notice about if you plan to travel along December and until January 9th, 2014.

A train engineer is drawing intense scrutiny as investigators press their probe of Sunday's horrific train wreck in New York City that left four people dead and more than 60 injured.

To provide opportunities for Miami's artistic talent and to attract new creatives to the city by strengthening the center's residency programs To bring together the city's musicians, dancers and filmmakers to produce a multimedia theatrical work that explores South Florida's evolution from swampland to modern metropolis To provide a platform for ... (more)

Illinois lawmakers are set to consider a potentially historic plan to solve the state's worst-in-the-nation $100 billion pension crisis.

The Conservative senator who now chairs the committee overseeing senators' living expenses has been claiming a housing allowance for a home he bought in Ottawa before joining the upper chamber.

Illinois lawmakers began putting the pieces in place Monday for a potentially historic vote to address the nation's worst public-pension shortfall, as legislators scrambled to digest the complex deal and labor unions and other political heavyweights ratcheted up pressure for and against it.

Kane is a relative newcomer to this history, having moved to L.A. from Ohio in 1987.