After a summer spent packing away sockeye salmon, Alaska’s heftiest brown bears are ready to throw their weight around.
Human remains found in the Grand Canyon this week have been identified as Timothy Allen Smith, the last person missing after the deadly flash flooding in late August.
A new National Park Service report backs President Donald Trump’s proposed arch, despite what it says are adverse effects to a host of Washington’s iconic landmarks, including the Washington Monument and Lincoln and Jefferson memorials.
President Donald Trump's handling of repairs at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has put the National Park Service in a difficult spot.
President Donald Trump's proposed 250-foot triumphal arch could disrupt the historical significance of many sites near its planned location.
Crews are draining the Lincoln Memorial's Reflecting Pool again as President Donald Trump's problem-plagued effort to renovate the site pushes past his initial July 4 deadline.
A federal appeals court panel says the Trump administration can replace a slavery exhibit at George Washington’s home in Philadelphia.
President Donald Trump's remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has turned chartreuse from an algal bloom.
A 900-pound time capsule marking the 250th anniversary of American independence has been sealed shut and shipped to Philadelphia, where it will be buried next month.
President Donald Trump's UFC fight on the White House's South Lawn requires a monumental effort from more than seven federal agencies, hundreds of staff working onsite daily and about $60 million.
A Latvian mountaineering group says three climbers on Alaska’s Mount McKinley who fell near a treacherous pass on North America’s tallest peak have died.
Rescuers are trying to reach four climbers who fell on Alaska’s Mount McKinley, North America’s tallest peak, the National Park Service said Thursday.
A federal judge is telling the U.S. government not to cut down more than 10 trees without first providing notice amid a legal dispute at a historic Washington golf course that President Donald Trump plans to renovate.
President Donald Trump is withdrawing his nomination of a hospitality company executive to lead the National Park Service.
Researchers say more wolves are roaming a remote Lake Superior island, using moose as one of their primary food sources.
The White House says it's “thrilled” after a federal commission gave early approval to the design for a 250-foot arch President Donald Trump wants to build at an entrance to the nation's capital.
The Trump administration is arguing that a judge’s order to halt construction of a $400 million ballroom creates a security risk for the president.
Washington’s cherry blossoms have reached peak bloom, and the city’s spring rush is in full swing.
A U.S. appeals court late Friday says the Trump administration can halt work on a National Park Service slavery exhibit in Philadelphia while it appeals a judge's order to reinstall it.
A federal judge has ordered an exhibit about nine people enslaved by George Washington to be restored at his former home in Philadelphia after President Donald Trump’s administration took it down last month.
President Donald Trump has nominated for director of the National Park Service an executive from a hospitality company that has extensive contracts with the agency he would lead.
The only hotel in Big Bend National Park has temporarily closed, as officials continue to navigate a critical water shortage in the Chisos Basin.
Scotty's Castle, built in the 1920s, is tucked away in the desert in Death Valley National Park and was one of the park's biggest attractions.
The National Park Service said it is navigating a critical water shortage after the only water source for the Chisos Basin failed just before Christmas.
Survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor have long been the center of a remembrance ceremony held each year on the military base’s waterfront.
The National Park Service will no longer offer free admission to Americans on Martin Luther King Jr. Day or Juneteenth, but will waive admission costs on President Donald Trump's birthday.
The National Park Service says it is going to start charging international tourists an extra $100 to enter some of the most popular U.S. parks.
Prosecutors are backing off after getting a misdemeanor conviction against a record-setting mountain runner in a national park.
One of Mississippi’s most-visited cultural attractions has reopened in the midst of the government shutdown, thanks to funding from a nonprofit group.
Crowds of people loaded onto boats to tour the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island with no immediate signs of the government shutdown that is triggering the furlough of about two-thirds of National Park Service employees.
A group of former national park superintendents is calling on the Trump administration to close the parks to visitors in case of a government shutdown.
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.
A Wyoming grand jury has indicted a man on an animal cruelty charge after he allegedly hit a wolf with a snowmobile, taped its mouth shut and brought it into a bar before killing it.
A Yosemite National Park ranger was fired after hanging a pride flag from El Capitan, and some visitors to the California park face potential prosecution for participating in a demonstration.
A big bronze statue of a donkey named Brighty the Burro has been recovered from the charred rubble of the Grand Canyon Lodge in Arizona.
A new welcome center at the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine tells the story of the land from the perspective of its original inhabitants — the Native Americans who comprise the Wabanaki Confederacy.
The National Park Service is defending its handling of a lightning-sparked wildfire that destroyed the Grand Canyon Lodge.
Employees across the Department of the Interior have until the end of Wednesday to respond to the latest offer to take buyouts or early retirement.
The National Park Service has reversed edits and restored content to its webpage about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad in the wake of news reports and public backlash over the changes.
As part of the Trump administration’s federal budget cuts, the National Park Service (NPS) is facing significant reductions that could impact San Antonio’s historic missions, including the closure of the law enforcement facility at Mission San Jose.
Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.
The National Park Service has announced that peak bloom this year for the signature cherry blossom trees of Washington, D.
National Park Service officials announced on Friday that construction in Big Bend’s Chisos Basin area, initially scheduled for May, will now begin in July.
References to transgender people have been removed from a National Park Service website for the Stonewall National Monument.
U.S. government websites have gone dark as agencies scrambled to comply with President Donald Trump’s executive orders declaring his administration would recognize only two genders and ordering an end to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
Commercial air tours will soon be prohibited over Canyon de Chelly National Monument in northeastern Arizona under a plan approved this week by the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Park Service.
U.S. Border Patrol Agents and National Park Service Rangers rescued 13 migrants in Big Bend National Park earlier this month.
The park is seeking public comment on a draft plan that would allow the removal of invasive swine and antelope species, a news release from the Padre Island National Seashore said.
Voting has started in the annual Fat Bear Week contest at Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve.
An Alaska national park’s annual celebration of the beefy, brown and bristly is getting underway as some of the chunkiest bears on the planet fatten up for their long winter slumber.
Four significant breaks in the water pipeline that serves the Grand Canyon means visitors won’t be able to stay overnight in hotels inside Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim through the Labor Day holiday.
Visitors won’t be able to stay overnight in hotels at Grand Canyon National Park after a series of breaks in the only pipeline that serves the popular tourist destination.
Search and rescue crews at Grand Canyon National Park are searching for an Arizona woman nearly two days after she was swept into a creek during a flash flood.
Two people who drowned off South Carolina’s Hilton Head Island where rip current warnings related to Hurricane Ernesto were posted have been identified as Ohio men.
Ernesto has regained hurricane status as the storm churns away from Bermuda and heads farther out into the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.
Hurricane Ernesto was being felt this weekend along much of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, even with the storm hundreds of miles offshore and crossing Bermuda.
Hurricane Ernesto has weakened into a tropical storm as it moves away from Bermuda over open waters of the Atlantic after crossing over the tiny British territory early in the day with heavy rains and strong winds.
A California man died from overheating at Death Valley National Park after hiking on a day where temperatures reached nearly 120 degrees Fahrenheit (48.3 degrees Celsius).
A surprise eruption of steam in a Yellowstone National Park geyser basin that sent people scrambling for safety as basketball-sized rocks flew overhead has highlighted a little-known hazard that scientists hope to be able to predict someday.
A surprise eruption in Yellowstone National Park has shot steam, water and dark-colored rock and dirt an estimated 100 feet into the sky and sent people running for safety.
Yellowstone National Park officials say a gunman killed by park rangers as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at the entrance of a dining facility with 200 people inside had told a woman he planned to carry out a mass shooting.
The National Park Service and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department are asking visitors to stay cautious on beaches and coastal parks this week as a tropical storm develops in the Gulf of Mexico.
The federal government plans to restore grizzly bears to an area of northwest and north-central Washington.
Mission San José in San Antonio is now one of three sites in Texas connected to the Underground Railroad, new research says.
The National Park Service will have free entry to parks and other sites on Saturday to celebrate National Park Week and Earth Day.
Advocates for some 200 wild horses roaming North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park are hoping a signal of support from Congress will prevent the removal of the beloved animals.
It’s cherry blossom season again, and officials in the nation's capital are predicting a banner year for the signature pink blooms.
A father and son created a nonprofit that preserves and shares the histories of the indigenous people who not only built the Spanish Colonial Missions but also lived and died at what is now considered a UNESCO World Heritage site.
The National Park Service has announced the days when visitors can get into dozens of national parks for free in the new year.
Repair crews have installed concrete blocks and cables to secure the National Christmas Tree in front of the White House after the tree blew down.
When it comes to packing on the pounds to survive an Alaska winter, this year’s undisputed champ is Grazer.
New research shows that fossil footprints discovered at the edge of an ancient lakebed in New Mexico's White Sands National Park date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago.
The National Park Service will close sections of the Big Bend National Park in October due to the aerial shootings of non-native aoudad (barbary sheep).
The National Park Service has proposed removing wild horses from Theodore Roosevelt National Park in western North Dakota, as the park looks to revise its livestock plans.
Authorities are asking for the public’s help finding the person or people responsible for vandalizing the historic church at Mission San José last week.
A wolverine was spotted three times last month in the eastern Sierra Nevada, a rare occurrence for an animal that’s only been seen one other time in California over the last 100 years.
