Frugal Traveler Blog: In Portugal, Mirandese Spoken Here - and Only Here

In an isolated corner of Portugal, searching for Mirandese, the country's second official language, means a new -- and frugal -- reason to travel.

Slim Dusty's home to be heritage listed

The remote dairy farm where country music legend Slim Dusty grew up will be heritage listed.

5 Ways to Stretch Your Grocery Budget

As rising fuel costs and demand drove up food prices last year, consumers throughout the country felt the pinch at the grocery store. Although predictions for 2012 aren't as dramatic, the Department of ...

Asheville Outdoors Calendar

Karen Masson, left, and Cass Perkins ride along the Blue Ridge Parkway past a rock wall covered with ice north of Asheville last week. / John Fletcher/Jfletcher@citizen-times.com

Ireland at the end of the road

As Ireland's runaway boom years have given way to one of the steepest slumps of a developed country since the Second World War, the lives of middle-class professionals have been devastated by the crash...