US National Parks News

Due to snow and ice present on the roadway, Lassen National Park Highway is closed between the Kohm Yah-mah-nee Visitor Center and Manzanita Lake .

Old Fall River Road in Rocky Mountain National Park will be closed to vehicles throughout 2014 to repair damage caused by flooding in September.

The only original copy of the Magna Carta in the United States is the centerpiece of a new museum gallery at the National Archives , tracing the evolution of rights and freedoms through present day.

Miller Field is re-opening to the public for the first time since Hurricane Sandy.

Trees burn in a burnout fire as firefighters continue to battle the Rim Fire near Yosemite National Park on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013.

MISSOULA, Mont. - The teenage brother of a Montana woman on trial for murder in the death of her new husband broke down Tuesday on the witness stand as he described his anger over her lies about what happened.

Jim Wilde and John Sturgeon have both lost their lawsuits to challenge the National Park Service's authority to dictate their behavior on navigable rivers in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.

The Current and Jacks Fork rivers that course through Ozark National Scenic Riverways in Missouri lure paddlers.

The National Park Service Southeast Region office in Atlanta announced Monday it has selected Pedro Ramos as the acting superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Brandon Cordill assigned to the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, tests the smoke system on his F/A-18 Hornet aircraft May 9, 2013, prior to launch for a proficiency training flight at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla.

In this Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, emergency workers look at the crater created when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed near Shanksville, Pa.

A former official in the Los Angeles suburb of Bell has been convicted of corruption in a case that drove the blue-collar city to the brink of bankruptcy.

Jury selection gets underway Monday in the murder trial of a newlywed bride accused of pushing her husband to his death in Glacier National Park just days after their wedding.

An endangered Florida panther has been found dead of a suspected gunshot wound on federal land.

A Montana woman goes on trial for murder after pushing her newylwed husband off a cliff in Glacier National Park.

A new study says that violent dramas on the broadcast networks carry milder cautions than cable shows that are equal in gore.

Jury selection gets underway Monday in the murder trial of a newlywed bride accused of pushing her husband to his death in Glacier National Park just days after their wedding.

Paso por aqui . . . A reliable waterhole hidden at the base of a massive sandstone bluff made El Morro a popular campsite.

Eleven more pilot whales were found dead in the lower Florida Keys on Sunday, believed to be from a pod of 51 that became stranded there last week, and authorities said chances were slim of finding the remaining whales alive.

It became a national park in 1962. With one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of 225 million year old fossils, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.