Hawaii’s minimum wage goes up $2 an hour Thursday — to $16 from $14 — amid other new state laws in 2026 that include ...

Coastal residents in Sydney’s southeast were confronted with an unusual sight overnight as a nearly 2000-passenger cruise ship made an emergency stop at Port Botany after a medical incident on board.

All matches of the FIFA World Cup 26, which will be played across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico from June 11 through July 19, 2026, will be available to watch fleetwide on select cruise lines’ ships.

A cruise passenger in Ketchikan, Alaska, filmed a once-in-a-lifetime encounter right beside the docked ship Noordam on October 7. Bubbles circled the surface moments before a giant rose up from the ...

Rachel Craft is a travel writer at TPG. She's excited about introducing more people to the world of points & miles and helping fellow travel newbies make the most of their points. The cards we feature ...

Responsible Tourism Can hotels really put up a food fight?Across Asia, a new crop of sustainability conscious hotels are now tackling the mounting problem of food waste. Ovation of the Seas begins new ...

If you missed the just-ended 2025 Alaska cruise season, don’t worry your pretty little parka about it — your dream of glacier-gazing and totem-trail trekking is already within reach. Alaska’s cruise ...

Aaron Saunders didn’t grow up wanting to be a cruise nerd. But he is a professed ship geek, and proud of it. The voyage is marked by B.C.’s 64,000 square kilometre Great Bear Rainforest, which evokes ...

The Noordam completed Holland America Line’s “Great Alaska Explorer” voyage on September 28, 2025. Sailing roundtrip from Vancouver, the 14-night cruise was one of the longest cruises offered by the ...

This information comes from the Cruise Line Agencies of Alaska’s 2025 schedule. Capacity figures in parenthesis were pulled from cruise lines’ websites. Sapphire Princess (2,670) 6:30 a.m.-4:15 p.m.

Holland America Line is debuting five new “Legendary Voyages” cruises that will immerse travelers in the Mediterranean, the South Pacific, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska and Hawaii. Ranging from 27 to ...