Residents and elected officials are speaking out against a proposed border barrier through Texas’ biggest state park and one of the jewels of the national park system.

Park conservation advocates are raising concerns this week after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials have signaled intent to waive environmental regulations for border wall-related construction in far West Texas.

Brooke Hiers just a month ago left the state-issued emergency trailer where her family had lived after Hurricane Idalia slammed into her home on Florida's Gulf Coast in August of 2023.

Forecasters are warning that Hurricane Helene will intensify into a major storm before striking Florida and further inland as it heads northward across the Gulf of Mexico.

The National Park Service will have free entry to parks and other sites on Saturday to celebrate National Park Week and Earth Day.

The National Park Service has announced the days when visitors can get into dozens of national parks for free in the new year.

Power outages, flooding and vicious storm surge will likely take a while for citizens to recover from.

Florida and Georgia residents living along Hurricane Idalia’s path of destruction are picking through piles of rubble where homes once stood, throwing tarps over roofs and gingerly navigating through mazes of streets left underwater or clogged with fallen trees.

Florida’s Big Bend is one of the last truly natural places in the state.

Big Bend National Park is typically busy with hikers during spring break but on Saturday morning, it was filled with snow.

Visitors of Big Bend National Park now have a new 3-mile loop trail to test their hiking skills on.

Officials with the West Texas park said the 53-year-old woman was visiting the area with her family for the first time.

Federal officials say more than 60 migrants were found in a box truck stopped on a highway in the remote Big Bend region of West Texas.

Mexican long-nosed bats visit Big Bend every year, but their food source is in jeopardy as drought and wildfires become more frequent

The U.S. National Hurricane Center has warned of life-threatening storm surges, flooding and isolated tornadoes.

The fire burning in the rugged high country of the Chisos Mountains in far West Texas has now charred 929 acres of the 10,000 acres within Big Bend National Park, according to park superintendent Bob Krumenaker.