Chase and Southwest Airlines have refreshed personal and business Rapid Rewards cards, raising annual fees while adding bag, seating and boarding perks. These changes are tied to Southwest's move to assigned seating and paid bags and are accompanied by a limited-time 100,000-point sign-up bonus for personal Rapid Rewards cards.

“Southwest open seating is the ultimate expression of its founding ethos: to make air travel affordable and accessible for everyone.”—Official Southwest Airlines statement, as part of the airline’s 50th anniversary commemoration.

Alarms sounded in the cockpit of a Southwest Airlines jet shortly after taking off from Hollywood Burbank airport near Los Angeles on Friday, prompting evasive maneuvers, the airline said in a statement.

A passenger who was on board the Southwest Airlines flight that was forced to make a mid-air maneuver to avoid a collision with another plane spoke to NBC News on Saturday, saying that the “entire plane was screaming” when it suddenly descended after takeoff.

In a sometimes lively block of South Woodyear Street, in the long-overlooked Mount Clare neighborhood of Southwest Baltimore, a quiet revolution is unfolding. The boarded windows and blighted facades that once defined the area are starting to give way — not to condos or chain stores, but to canvases, color and community.

At Site Santa Fe, 71 artists were inspired by Southwestern figures, from healers and novelists to Navajo code talkers. Here’s a guide to the highlights.

The halal food shelf is at 436 Litchfield Ave. in Willmar and open Fridays from 9:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Firefighters from the Bureau of Land Management's Boise District are working to contain multiple wildfires ignited by lightning strikes on Monday.🔥 #IdahoNews6 #Wildfires #BLM

Police say a woman found dead in a southwest Oklahoma City house fire last week had injuries consistent with homicide.