US National Parks News

JOSHUA TREE NATIONAL PARK REOPENS COTTONWOOD SPRINGS AREA, FLOWERS BLOOMING Officials at Joshua Tree National Park announced yesterday the reopening of most of the Cottonwood Spring area of the park.

Diane Scher, a technology teacher at North Myrtle Beach Primary School, wor ks with a classroom of first-grade stuents on Thursday.

An Outer Banks community group has filed a federal lawsuit challenging new regulations that govern beach driving at the Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Newswise - In a paper recently published in the journal BioScience , Richard B. Primack, professor of biology at Boston University, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, science coordinator at the Acadia National Park and the Schoodic Education and Research Center, National Park Service, show how unconventional sources of data, including historical ... (more)

The Schoodic Education and Research Center Institute has named Dr. Jessica Rykken and Mr.

Texas' Big Bend National Park has been designated as an International Dark Sky Park, one of just 10 in the world.

On Jan. 29, I read The News Leader's Our View ("Yancey fiasco didn't have to happen," published Jan.

On Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park will celebrate the 194th birthday of New Bedford's most famous orator and abolitionist, Frederick Douglass.

The peace and tranquility of the land near the Lake Mead Recreation Area has drawn a religious group hoping to build a monastery.

Clare Farne Robinson and Matthew Dickinson Heaphy of Brooklyn, N.Y., were married Sept.

State lawmakers are considering a bill that would prevent a casino from opening withing 10 miles of the Gettysburg National Military Park.

"The cat was clamped onto his face, I reached down and got my pocket knife out and stabbed the cat in the chest and it let go at that point." A 6-year-old Texas boy is recovering after being attacked by a mountain lion while walking with his family at Big Bend National Park.

The U.S. House approved and sent the Senate land-exchange legislation that would give the Quileute tribe 785 acres of Olympic National Park land and allow the tribe to move its school and other facilities from a tsunami zone on the coast to higher ground.

Michael Graves, who has helped design more than 2,000 products for Target, is ending his run with the company.

Winter and spring are popular seasons for visiting Saguaro National Park , and for good reason.

14, weather permitting Williams-Grand Canyon News GRAND CANYON, Ariz - Grand Canyon National Park 's Trail Crew will soon begin repairs to the bridge across Bright Angel Creek on the Ribbon Falls spur trail in the Inner Canyon.

Researchers using satellite tracking have discovered new feeding hotspots in the Gulf of Mexico providing important habitats for at least three separate populations of loggerhead turtles.

There's a glass case in a room on Graceland's first floor that holds a small white fur coat, a... INDIO - A suspected drunken driver facing murder charges in a 2009 wreck in Joshua Tree National Park that killed two men in the backseat was given a trial date today.

A 6-year-old boy is recovering from a mountain lion attack that left him with scrapes and puncture wounds to his face.

The Old Post Office was completed in 1899 to house the U.S. Post Office headquarters and the city's post office.