Calif. woman fights for passenger rights
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For more than eight miserable hours, Kate Hanni sat aboard a grounded plane at a Texas airport, yards from apparently empty gates. A few weeks after that December ordeal, the brassy real estate agent from California's wine country took her fight for a passengers' bill of rights to Capitol Hill.
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By Shelli Derobertis, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, Calif.  Dec.
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The union representing Northwest  Airlines Corp.'s flight attendants has filed a federal lawsuit  against the airline, demanding that employees be allowed to sit  in on contract negotiations.
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Hollywood party girls don't have a monopoly on trouble in California. A disproportionate number of the state's congressional Republicans are facing ethics questions that threaten to sink their careers and their party's political fortunes too.
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An airport worker is fighting to get her job back after being sacked for wearing a nose stud.
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For Raquel RodrÃ­guez of San Antonio, legal immigration status has been both a privilege and a burden.
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BEIJING -- The wife of a blind, imprisoned legal activist was detained at the Beijing airport yesterday after authorities prevented her from flying to the Philippines to receive an award on behalf of her husband, whose case has sparked international outrage and condemnation.
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Campaigners against the expansion of Britain's airports mount a legal challenge to the government.
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By Ed Mendel, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Feb. 20--SACRAMENTO -- A surge of new highway money from a $19.9 billion  transportation bond has renewed political infighting over whether Caltrans  should use government or private engineers, bringing warnings of possible  project delays.
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A woman who moved to the US as a baby and later won a California council seat faces deportation for illegally voting.
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Nabila Mango, a therapist and a U.S. citizen who has lived in the country since 1965, had just flown in from Jordan last December when, she said, she was detained at customs and her cellphone was taken from her purse. Her daughter, waiting outside San Francisco International Airport, tried repeat...
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BBC News Online looks at what rights passengers have if their holidays or flights are cancelled.
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By ERICA WERNER  WASHINGTON - The lawmaker whose bill would block California and other states from regulating tailpipe emissions is standing firm despite opposition from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.  Rep.
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Angry after finding herself stranded on a plane turned Kate Hanni into an advocate for passenger rights. Now her campaign is taking off.
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By Paul Burgarino  Representatives from one of the worst air pollution regions in California voted last week to join the state in a possible lawsuit against the federal Environmental Protection Agency concerning emissions regulations for newer-model cars.
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By Alan Lowenthal  Since I began in the California Legislature eight years ago I have noticed a new tactic being employed by advocates for the business community. It basically goes something like this; pass it and we will sue.
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WASHINGTON Dec 22, 2004 - In response to numerous complaints from women, the government has ordered airport security personnel to avoid touching female passengers between their breasts when performing patdowns.