Cruise West shuts doors without alerting customers

Cruise West has shut its doors and its reservation lines after hitting times months ago. It could not be rescued even after the owners injected money into the company last month, according to one agent.

Nassau County Displays its New Optical Scanner Voting Machines

This summer the Nassau County Board of Elections have been doing a “trunk show” at venues all over the area to show voters how the new optical scanner machines work. Nassau County is following the new guidelines of the Help Americans Vote Act that was passed by the federal government in October 2002 when then President George W. Bush signed it into law. The aim of the legislation was to improve ...

The £1m cruise: Simon Calder calculates the appeal of a voyage around the Greek islands

On the quayside in Corfu, she was dwarfed by the intimidating bulk, in the adjacent dock, of an Italian cruise ship – the MSC Musica, doing a good impression of a Milanese apartment block. Yet even though the Thomson Spirit was a mere slip of a ship, for us passengers newly arrived from Luton, Newcastle or any of a dozen other UK airports – plus a few guests from Dublin and Helsinki – she was a ...

The Paternity Test, Aug. 23: The city that never sleeps

Traversing New York City in a double-wide stroller.

A lot of bottle: Life on board the Plastiki

Do you want to cross the Pacific on a boat made of plastic bottles?" I was asked a year-and-a-half ago. "Yes," I replied without hesitation. I figured it wasn't a question that would come up again soon. The Plastiki adventure began when David de Rothschild, the British adventurer and environmentalist, came across a United Nations report on the state of the world's oceans, which pointed to the ...