US National Parks News

Teachers will travel to Stockton Island to learn about climate change impacts in the Apostle Islands as part of the "Changing Climate - Changing Culture" teacher institute scheduled for July 15-18.

An unattended campfire near a main route into Yosemite National Park has grown into a more than 2-square-mile blaze that officials said Tuesday has led to the evacuations of 800 homes and 1,500 people.

Starting Thursday, federal and state officials say they will impose the restrictions on public lands in southern Utah and northern Arizona.

Erik Weihenmayer, the famed blind adventurer who has climbed to the top of Mount Everest, was part of the effort to save nearly 260 acres at the top of the Zion Narrows Trail from development.

A herd of dinosaurs are trapped in rock outside Arches National Park, and state paleontologists need a helicopter to bring it back to the lab to see what's really inside.

RIDGEFIELD/WILTON, Conn. -- Do you have a green thumb? Do you enjoy painting colorful gardens? Celebrate Connecticut's Historic Gardens Day this weekend at Weir Farm National Historic Site, where gardens and art go hand-in-hand.

Federal agents appeared to be reviving the hunt for the remains of Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa on Monday as they searched a field in suburban Detroit.

Rain helped firefighters douse Colorado's most destructive wildfire in state history, while a new wind-whipped blaze in California forced evacuations and threatened homes Monday near Yosemite National Park.

NSA leaker Edward Snowden is defending his disclosure of top-secret U.S. spying programs in an online chat with The Guardian and attacking U.S. officials for calling him a traitor.

Acadia National Park rangers say a broken rope was to blame for an incident that injured three climbers on a 25-foot-high rock face and led to a complicated rescue.

A wind-whipped wildfire near the main route into Yosemite National Park in the Central Sierra foothills forced the evacuation of about 150 houses and threatened others, a state fire official said on Monday.

The annual Flint Hills butterfly census is coming up, and officials at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve are inviting the public to take part.

The wedding was to take place beside the waterfall at Meridian Hill Park, commonly known as Malcolm X Park, in Washington, D.C., but rain changed the plans.

A Rome man was pronounced dead after he drowned at Little River Canyon Park in DeKalb County, Ala.,Saturday, according to a statement released on Sunday from Park Ranger Larry Beane.

This aerial view of the fire in the Wild Mountain area of Dinosaur National Monument was taken June 15, 2013.

Workers move a Civil War cannon into position at Fort Moultrie on Sullivans Island, S.C., on June 10, 2013 after the gun was conserved.

Park rangers, wildlife refuge workers and U.S. Park Police experienced more assaults and threats from visitors last year than in 2011, according to a group that represents federal resource workers.

A great way to experience national parks is to get out on your bike and pedal through them.

The Big Meadows fire has grown to about 479 acres after a burnout operation on Friday to strengthen fire lines and reduce fuels along the southern flank of the blaze.

Quantifying the benefits of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is not as easy as quantifying how much it cost to do.