Holiday Season

COVID-19 is adding an extra helping of anxiety to what is already a stressful time of year. Dr. Shana Lewis joined LX News to offer tips for people feeling uneasy about their Thanksgiving holiday plans.

Are you scrambling to buy your last-minute holiday presents? NerdWallet’s personal finance expert Kimberly Palmer stopped by LX News to share last-minute gift ideas for procrastinators who don’t want to break their bank accounts.

In a CNN interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci told some curious kids that he visited the North Pole himself and administered a coronavirus vaccine to Santa.

You think you know the long, storied history of Christmas trees? Well, here’s a few things that may have slipped past your radar.

It seems like a simple choice. Real tree or fake for Christmas. But here’s why that simple choice could have long lasting consequences.

There are some relatively small things you can do for the holiday season that will go a long way to helping the planet…from the type of Christmas tree you pick out to how you wrap your presents.

It’s a busy season for the mail system. Because of the coronavirus pandemic, more people are staying home and shipping gifts to friends instead. The U.S. Postal Service says this year you should try to send them even earlier.

Do the planet a solid. Dismiss the primal urge to dump all that trash in a plastic bag and get on with your day. The holiday season is the time to think green.

As if we didn’t have enough to worry about this holiday season, November and December are also peak months for food poisoning from certain types of bacteria, such as Clostridium perfringens.

Like just about everything else this year the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be… different. No bulging crowds. Fewer balloons and a lot more masks. But even with that the parade will go on, albeit in a muted fashion.

The holiday shopping season will look different this year. Because of the pandemic, more shopping will be done online. That means there’s more chances for people to steal your personal information.

Neiman Marcus has unveiled their annual Christmas Book of fantasy gifts for the 2020 holiday season.

With the holiday season quickly approaching, experts are suggesting creating a family or community bubble as the safest way to enjoy this year’s holiday celebrations while reducing your risk of COVID-19 and the flu. NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker shares a holiday bubble checklist that your holiday group can adopt in the days and weeks before your gatherings to ensure everyone...

The holidays are typically the busiest time of year for travel, but amid the threat of COVID-19, health experts are hoping more people stay closer to home this year. Andrew Noymer, a public health expert and professor at the University of California, Irvine, joined LX News to discuss the health risks of holiday travel and safety tips for visiting relatives...

Your guide to having awkward conversations and minimizing coronavirus spread at family get-togethers.

Your guide to having awkward conversations and minimizing coronavirus spread at family get-togethers.

Lots of people are already looking for creative and safe ways to celebrate the holidays this year.

NBCLX storyteller Clark Fouraker provides helpful tips for staying safe at social gatherings this fall and winter, including limiting events to fewer people and staying outdoors as much as possible to reduce your risk of contracting COVID-19.

San Diegans are celebrating the holidays with a traditional Mexican dish — tamales. While tamales have long been a staple for Mexicans at Christmastime, traditional food has become an essential part of San Diego’s culture as well given the city’s proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border. Dozens of people waited outside Las Cuatro Milpas in Barrio Logan on Christmas Eve....