US National Parks News

Peak wildfire season in California is usually in September and October, but the Pfeiffer Fire now raging in Big Sur, apparently didn't get the memo.

Billerica, Massachusetts ? From the Kennedy Center to the National Mall, Creative Video of Washington, Inc., a full-service video production company based in McLean, Va., produces a variety of live events across the Washington, DC region.

Our WGNS Educator of the Month is Kevin Woodson at Riverdale High School in Murfreesboro.

Fee increases for picnic reservations in national parks in the District of Columbia are being considered.

A Kiva Room, top, and the exterior of the lodging units at Mesa Verde National Park.

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has backed away from a plan to force cattle ranchers from their leased lands for a 100,000-acre bison reserve in the South Unit of Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota.

The structures on this property will be removed and the landscape rehabilitated so it reflects its appearance in September 1862.

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

As of Monday, people were able to travel the park's interior roads on commercially guided snowmobiles or snowcoaches.

This May 26, 2012 file photo shows tourists gathering to view the eruption of Old Faithful at Yellowstone National Park.

'I pushed and he went over': Newly-released tapes show Montana newlywed confessing to killing her husband in argument on a cliff Unseen FBI interviews have been released showing a newlywed confessing to pushing her husband of eight days off a cliff as they argued about her second thoughts about the marriage.

The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Commission is proposing a 2014 bighorn sheep hunting season with two slight modifications from last year.

As Rocky Mountain National Park and highway officials ponder what to do about reopening the Alluvial Fan area and Old Fall River Road following the destruction wrought by the September floods that scoured so much of Colorado's Front Range, it is worth noting that Bear Lake Road easily survived the floods.

The Foshay Tower lit up Tuesday night downtown Minneapolis in 2009. This photograph was taken from Clinton Avenue in Minneapolis.

State geologists are conducting an extensive investigation at the scene of a rockslide that killed two people in a small Utah town outside Zion National Park to assess whether there's any continuing risk.

The supervolcano that lies beneath Yellowstone National Park is 2.5 times larger than previously thought, it was revealed at an American Geophysical Union meeting .

Seasonal road closures are in effect for motorized vehicles. The Teton Park Road is closed from the Taggart Lake Trailhead to the Signal Mountain Lodge.

How much do you really know about winter in the National Park System? Take the following quiz and see how you match up with 3. Which of the following national parks is closed to visitors for the entire winter season? 5. Over the years, hundreds of people have paid big bucks to spend Christmas Eve at the Bracebridge Dinner in 6. Many people observe ... (more)

Some have said this is our last and best chance to save these buildings. I would not be so pessimistic."

Whether due to oversight, a lack of political expediency, or inadvertent shunning, the country's first state was last in landing a unit of the National Park System within its borders.