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Lake Tahoe ski resorts near the Caldor Fire in Northern California are helping firefighter crews hold off the flames

Lake Tahoe ski resorts are using snow blowers to help fight flames from the Caldor Fire

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Lake Tahoe ski resorts near the Caldor Fire in Northern California are helping firefighter crews hold off the flames. Heavenly Ski Resort and Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resort are using their snowmaking systems to protect the resorts and surrounding areas, according to their Instagram account. “The snow blowers are used because they

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Mahalingam visited the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador in 2013.

This 70-year-old Indian woman has been to 66 countries in the last 25 years. And she isn’t slowing down

Arundhati Nath, CNN Solo travel wasn’t considered safe, ideal or trendy for Indian women 25 years ago. Those who traveled alone were often criticized for defying cultural and societal norms — dismissed as adamant, single women who didn’t care about their own safety. But that didn’t deter Dr. Sudha Mahalingam. When she tagged along on

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Downed trees are seen around the historic house in LaPlace

How a museum founder battled Ida to save precious pieces of the history of Louisiana’s enslaved people

By Amanda Jackson and Michelle Krupa, CNN As Hurricane Ida barreled through LaPlace, Louisiana, on Sunday, a museum founder hunkered down in a 1790s plantation house to save irreplaceable historic artifacts. John McCusker, founder of the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House, along with Charlotte Jones, operations and programming manager of the museum, stayed at the

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Downed trees are seen around the historic house in LaPlace

How a museum founder battled Ida to save precious pieces of the history of Louisiana’s enslaved people

By Amanda Jackson and Michelle Krupa, CNN As Hurricane Ida barreled through LaPlace, Louisiana, on Sunday, a museum founder hunkered down in a 1790s plantation house to save irreplaceable historic artifacts. John McCusker, founder of the 1811 Kid Ory Historic House, along with Charlotte Jones, operations and programming manager of the museum, stayed at the

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