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Taking a Lyft, Uber or taxi from Los Angeles International Airport is about to get more complicated. Starting at 3 a.m. Oct. 29, taxi and ride-hailing services will be barred from picking up passengers at LAX terminals. Instead, passengers will have to take a shuttle bus to a nearby parking lot, called LAX-it, to pick up a ride.

Authorities arrested at least 58 people at this year’s Burning Man festival in the northern Nevada desert, 14 more than last year.

Hurricane Dorian is strengthening and is forecast to hit Florida as a Category 4 storm, threatening to derail travel during the busy Labor Day weekend. Dorian is projected to make landfall in Florida with winds reaching 130 miles per hour, according to the National Hurricane Center. The air traffic control tower at Miami International Airport will close if sustained wind...

A Delta Air Lines pilot who was scheduled to fly from Minnesota to San Diego, California, was arrested before the flight for allegedly being intoxicated, authorities said. Gabriel Lyle Schroeder, 37, was taken into custody by airport police at Minneapolis−Saint Paul International Airport on Tuesday morning, NBC News reported. Airport spokesman Patrick Hogan told NBC News that Schroeder drew suspicion...

A security threat Saturday morning at San Francisco International Airport led to the closure of some boarding areas and grounding of flights, according to an airport spokesman.

San Francisco International Airport was temporary shutdown Saturday after a Transportation Security Administration agent found a loaded magazine brought by a passenger through a security checkpoint. Roz Plater reports.

A 62-year-old airline worker who was hit and killed at Mineta San Jose International airport last week has been identified as Mary Lo-Wong of San Jose, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office.

The percentage of TSA airport screeners missing work has hit 10 percent as the partial government shutdown stretches into its fifth week. The Transportation Security Administration said Monday that Sunday’s absence rate compared to 3.1 percent on the comparable Sunday a year ago. The workers who screen passengers and their bags face missing another paycheck if the shutdown doesn’t end...

San Francisco International Airport says nearly 200 flights have been delayed because of low visibility and smoke caused by wildfires in Northern California.

Smoke from the Camp Fire continued to smother the Bay Area on Wednesday, and there were few signs of it clearing soon, according to the National Weather Service.

San Francisco International Airport says nearly 200 flights have been delayed because of low visibility and smoke caused by wildfires in Northern California. Christie Smith reports

Many Bay Area school districts are canceling classes due to smoke from the Camp Fire.

Many Bay Area school districts are canceling classes due to smoke from the Camp Fire. Pete Suratos reports.

A commercial jet that landed at San Francisco International Airport on Wednedsay afternoon made contact with a concrete wall while being towed to a gate, according to an airport spokesman.

A commercial jet that landed at San Francisco International Airport on Wednesday afternoon hit a concrete wall while being towed to a gate, according to an airport spokesman. Terry McSweeney reports.

Severe weather in the Northeast has led to 52 canceled flights at San Francisco International Airport so far this morning, according to an airport spokesman.

Snowfall shrouding much of the Deep South began tapering off early Saturday, but freezing temperatures kept roads slick throughout the region and airplanes grounded at the world’s busiest airport. Forecasters warned that moisture on the roadways could freeze and cause black ice to form. The National Weather Service said that while snow flurries would end by midday in areas including...

We ran the numbers, and found the best (and worst) days, times, airlines, and airpots to fly this holiday season. We also found one Bay Area airport ranked worst in the nation for on-time arrivals.

Security officials at San Francisco International Airport issued a lockdown in one of the terminals on Sunday evening, according to an airport spokesman.

Smoke from wildfires is causing airline flights to be delayed or canceled in Northern California. More than 103 flights were canceled by Thursday afternoon at San Francisco International Airport, said airport spokesman Doug Yakel.