The body of a mum who left behind a six-year old daughter was not discovered for weeks after her death. Alicia Douglass, 35, ...

Lucia Ortiz trudges through endless fields of cempasuchil flowers, the luminescent orange petals of which will soon cloak everything from city streets to ...

In collaboration with Monterey Peninsula College, Palenke Arts invited families to honor their ancestors through art, music, ...

Diane Ladd, a three-time Academy Award nominee and actor of rare timing and intensity whose roles ranged from the brash ...

The route from the land of the dead to San Andrés Mixquic, a little town just outside Mexico City, is lined with marigolds.

Many of the wealthiest people in the world live in the Bay Area. Four of the top 10 richest people in the world reside in one ...

Lees is striving to become the sixth trainer to prepare a Melbourne Cup winner for Williams, who won his first with the Tommy Smith-trained Just A Dash in 1981. The Melbourne Cup will be held tomorrow ...

Pomuch, Mexico, is one of the last places where residents clean their relatives’ bones. Now they are grappling with a new challenge: tourists.

A community group in El Paso is asking border residents to save a prayer for migrants who died on the way to the United States and to speak up against immigration policies it alleges force them to ...

Day of the Dead commemorations in early November are a crucial religious, family and community celebration for most Mexicans and many other Latin Americans.

As Mexican families prepare for Day of the Dead celebrations, altars are set up to welcome back loved ones under the belief that they return home for one night each Nov. 2.

If you find yourself in Mexico City the weekend before Day of the Dead this year, make sure to stop by the grand parade where you can join in on live music, bike rides and other activities in ...