NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

The Transcanyon Waterline which supplies water to the millions of people visiting the Grand Canyon National Park is planned to receive a $208 million repair.

It’s the fourth house to collapse since February 2022.

The portion of the New River impacted by the train derailment is part of a national park, and is believed to be older than the Appalachians.

A woman collapsed and died while hiking on Monday, as southwestern Texas experiences an "unseasonable" heat wave.

A 64-year-old hiker has died at Big Bend National Park after collapsing, according to park officials.

Funding to repair the aqueduct came from the Great American Outdoors Act, which provides funding to improve national park infrastructure.

The National Park Service announced that the nation’s oldest Spanish aqueduct, which is located in San Antonio, is undergoing much-needed repairs.

In the last year, management for 10 parks have released air-tour programs for sightseeing flights above their spaces.

Notable sites such as the Smoky Mountains and the Lincoln Memorial rounded out the top 10 visited places in the National Park System as visits began rebounding from 2021.

Officials say peak bloom dates were harder to predict after an unseasonably warm winter.

Yosemite National Park will be closed indefinitely as the park gets hit by unusually snowy weather, with some areas of the park accumulating 15 feet of snow, according to the National Park Service.

The Washington, D.C., cherry blossoms are forecast to peak later this month. The trees were a gift from Japan in 1912, and more have been planted since then.

“If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down … even if you feel the friendship has run its course.”

A piece of the SS Savannah — which broke apart more than 200 years ago — was likely found on a New York shoreline following the impact of Tropical Storm Ian last fall.

Yellowstone National Park, a 2.2-million acre preserve of geological marvels and wildlife, became America's first national park on this day in history, March 1, 1872.

Yosemite National Park is closed until March due to unusually wintry weather in California, days after a massive rockfall was recorded by a tourist.

He was visiting Arches National Park with his family from Massachusetts.

The 56-year-old man was on a day hike to the Colorado River and back, park officials said.

A 56-year-old man from Pewaukee, Wisconsin, died Friday while hiking the Bright Angel Trail at the Grand Canyon during a day trip to the Colorado River, officials said.

The Lincoln Memorial will undergo a $69 million renovation beginning in March that will include a new museum beneath.

The new exhibit space, built into the memorial's cavernous "undercroft," will explore the history of President Lincoln and the monument that honors him. Construction is expected to finish in 2026.

Advocates have said a possible beach management plan at Padre Island National Seashore could spell doom for the sea turtle program and for tourism.

Sequoia National Park will restore public access to the Giant Forest starting this weekend. The Giant Forest was closed due to damaging storms pounding California.

Homeowners in Boulder Canyon, Colorado, are left "pleasantly surprised" after capturing footage of two mountain lions wandering together – as recorded on a Ring camera.

The National Park Service plans to clear the McPherson Square homeless encampment on February 15, amid D.C.’s hypothermia season

An elderly couple from Las Vegas, Nevada, was found dead in California's Death Valley National Park. Law enforcement officials discovered the husband and wife on Jan. 13.

A dead humpback whale was found Monday on the shores of a beach at Maryland's Assateague Island National Seashore. There were no obvious signs of the cause of death.

The National Park Service has announced that in 2023, there will be five days where admission to sites will be free to the public.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem tweeted that the Biden administration has once again blocked the state from hosting Independence Day fireworks at Mt. Rushmore.

A hiker was found non-responsive at the highest peak in Texas at the Guadalupe Mountains National Park.

The National Park Service is proposing a rule that would prohibit bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska.

No other remains were found after a search of Abyss Pool but investigators noted apparent "fatty tissues" floating in the 140-degree Fahrenheit pool.

Dry Tortugas National Park is closed while authorities process the migrants, amid a recent uptick in arrivals to the Florida Keys.

A married couple from San Jose, California, was killed in a rockslide at Yosemite National Park on Tuesday, park officials said.

North Carolina's coastline — known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic — is home to thousands of shipwrecks, and experts have a theory about this one.

The rappeller's ropes were too short, and, in a scenario all too common in climbing, he fell to the ground.

Wilbur and Orville Wright allegedly became the first to successfully fly a powered and controlled airplane on this day in history, Dec. 17, 1903. Here's their remarkable story.

P-22 had close encounters with residents and apparently attacked two dogs, leading officials to seek him.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's announcement comes after the mountain lion killed a dog last month and attacked another last week.

Last month the Aimee Copeland Foundation and Georgia DNR debuted a fleet of all-terrain wheelchairs for free park use. A movement has begun.

An endangered nocturnal seabird fledgling was seen on camera for the first time emerging from a burrow on a volcano, officials say.

This week the U.S. Navy and the National Park Service will host a remembrance ceremony at Pearl Harbor on the 81st anniversary of the 1941 Japanese bombing.

Every year before Christmas, Angela Formica, a third-grade teacher at Falmouth Elementary School in Stafford County, and her husband spend a weekend in Washington.

Park officials believe the 31-year-old succumbed to hypothermia

A Montana judge said he would decide Tuesday whether to continue temporary limits on wolf hunting in the state or to restore quotas and hunting methods before a trial over whether the public was given an adequate opportunity to weigh in on changes in the way the state estimates the size of the wolf population.

The couple was on a 16-mile trek through The Narrows, one of the park’s most popular hikes.

A campground located along the Bright Angel Trail will be called Havasupai Gardens following a government decision

The name change came after a formal request from the Havasupai tribe, park officials said.

The brand is coincidentally named “Neverbreak Trunks.”

They are “masters at camouflage,” the National Park Service says.

Hurricane Nicole brought a storm surge of around 5 feet to Northeast Florida, which could be responsible for washing the trunk ashore.

Foul play is not suspected in his death, park officials said.

Yellowstone National Park officials say a foot found floating in a hot pool last summer belonged to a 70-year-old man from Los Angeles.

Grizzlies used to thrive in Washington state's North Cascades. The federal government is launching a study to examine bringing them back.

Two agencies will investigate bringing grizzlies back to the Pacific Northwest

Environmental groups are hailing a decision by the Biden administration to resume studying whether grizzly bears should be restored to the remote North Cascades mountains in Washington state.

The toad, also called – Bufo alvarius, or psychedelic toad – secretes a venom that can paralyze or even kill dogs.

Idaho's top wildlife official says the state's wolf population appears to be holding steady despite recent changes by lawmakers that allow expanded methods and seasons for killing wolves.

An Arizona woman is still missing after being swept away at Utah’s Zion National Park three days ago as flooding surged through the southwestern United States and imperiled tourists visiting the region’s scenic parks.

Death Valley National Park’s most popular sites will reopen to the public on Saturday, two weeks after massive flash-flooding.

Yellowstone National Park officials say part of a foot found in a hot spring this week is believed to be linked to a July 31 death.

Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after an employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park.

Authorities say a main roadway into Death Valley National Park will remain closed into next week as crews clean up after record-breaking rains damaged the roadway and choked it with mud, rocks and debris.

Hundreds of hotel guests trapped by flash flooding at Death Valley National Park were able to drive out after crews cleared a path for them.

Flash flooding triggered by heavy rainfall forced has officials to close all roads in and out of Death Valley National Park near the California-Nevada line Friday.

Officials have closed some roads in and out of Death Valley National Park after they were inundated over the weekend with mud and debris caused by by flash flooding.

Sunday, July 31, is World Ranger Day and across the globe, many are commemorating rangers killed or injured in the line of duty as well as honoring the work rangers do every day for the public.

You’re on a hiking trail in the early morning, the sun is shining and everything is peaceful... until you encounter a trap from a creepy-crawly enemy.

California firefighters have gained ground against a wildfire that poses a threat to a famous grove of giant sequoias and a small community in Yosemite National Park.

Officials say part of Yosemite National Park has been closed as a wildfire rages near a grove of California’s famed giant sequoia trees.

Confirming their worst fears for record-low lake levels, National Park Service fisheries biologists have discovered that a non-native predator fish has made its way through Glen Canyon Dam to the lower Colorado River, where it can prey on ancient native fish they have been working to reestablish.

The San Antonio Missions saw thousands of visitors who poured $104 million into the community last year, according to the National Park Service.

Major flooding swept away at least one bridge, washed away roads and set off mudslides in Yellowstone National Park on Monday.

Flooding has wiped out roads and bridges and closed off all entrances to Yellowstone National Park at the onset of the busy summer tourist season.

On this first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, federal officials are announcing a new initiative to modernize building codes.

The National Park Service is giving the public a first look at the future of the Chisos Mountains Lodge in Big Bend National Park.

New Mexico 's governor says the state faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.

Destructive U.S. Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger, as wind-fueled flames chewed up wide swaths of tinder dry forest and grassland and plumes of smoke filled the sky.

One of this year’s entrance fee-free days is coming up at our country’s National Parks, meaning if you want to visit, you won’t have to pay admission.

A judge has restored federal protections for gray wolves across much of the U.S. after they were removed in the waning days of the Trump administration.

A Fort Stockton man and his 9-year-old daughter are believed to be missing in Big Bend National Park, according to authorities.

A shuttered bowling alley at the center of a 1968 integration protest where state police killed three Black students is being remade into a civil rights center.

The quagga mussel — a close relative of the zebra mussel that’s already invaded 33 state lakes — was detected in Texas for the first time.

Montana wildlife commissioners are shutting down gray wolf hunting and trapping in areas bordering Yellowstone National Park amid criticism over 23 wolves being killed after roaming from the park in recent several months.

Mission San Jose is one of five Spanish Colonial missions in San Antonio that make up the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in Texas.

Photos from the University of Texas at San Antonio Special Digital Collection show what San Pedro Springs Park looked like as far back as the 1870s.

Sequoia National Park is reopening its Giant Forest area, three months after extraordinary efforts saved the grove as Northern California wildfires destroyed thousands of other redwoods.

Two mountain lion kittens that survived after a litter of four was found under a picnic table are being cared for at a California veterinary hospital.

National Park Service officials say dozen ancient alligator juniper trees have been illegally cut down in the El Malpais National Monument in western New Mexico.

The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved the nomination of Charles “Chuck” Sams III as National Park Service director, which will make him the first Native American to lead the agency that oversees more than 131,000 square miles of parks and other landmarks.

Fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago.

As we inch closer to the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, it feels fitting that we’re seeing more and more tributes and events pop up to remember the day.

Wildfires burning in the U.S. this summer have upended plans for countless outdoor adventures.

The National Park Service is pushing back against a Federal Aviation Administration report recommending approval of a launch pad for commercial rockets off the Georgia coast.

The water level at Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border has hit a historic low amid a climate change-fueled megadrought engulfing the U.S. West.

Federal wildlife officials have decided to list the Sierra Nevada red fox as an endangered species.

Scientists say wolf pups have been spotted again at Isle Royale National Park.

The National Park Service is hosting its Fourth of July fireworks display over the National Mall in Washington DC Sunday evening.

The National Park Service’s National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program and the Organization of American Historians will host a virtual public open house on Thursday to conclude a scholars’ roundtable examining the Underground Railroad in Texas and the southern borderlands.

The family of a women’s rights activist from Uganda has sued the National Park Service after she was decapitated last year by a gate at Utah’s Arches National Park.