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BOZEMAN - A 10-member task force has begun meetings in Ennis to develop a proposed resort tax it would like to see on the ballot in June.

Officials at Grand Canyon National Park say a man's body has been found 200 feet below the canyon's South Rim.

An Idaho woman fell about 1,000 feet to her death Friday while hiking the popular Angel's Landing trail in Zion National Park.

Washington: Tareq Salahi, who gatecrashed the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Barack Obama in honour of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House on Tuesday, is a known friend of India.

Old-fashioned all-wood guardrails along more than half the 460-mile Blue Ridge Parkway aren't much use at stopping cars.

Fresno planners are mulling a shuttle service that that would give visitors a new way to travel between the county and Yosemite National Park.

Visitors to the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will find better toilet facilities next year.

A couple of aspiring reality television stars who managed to gatecrash Barack Obama's White House state dinner for the Indian prime minister may have attended other presidential events.

Superintendent Jock Whitworth has announced that Zion National Park recently installed solar photovoltaic systems at the park's South and East Entrance Stations.

Dozens of people who live within the boundaries of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore have celebrated their final Thanksgiving in their homes.

Malaquite Beach at Padre Island National Seashore in November. NPS photo. If you're headed to Padre Island National Seashore in Texas, leave Fido at home.

The pursuit of Lee Shelton began the moment the convicted sex offender was released from prison.

Work will begin soon on the first of four improvement projects on the National Mall funded by the federal economic stimulus package.

Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park invites everyone to experience "Timeless Christmas at the LBJ Boyhood Home and the Johnson Settlement" on Saturday, November 28.

Visits to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park were down 4.1 percent in October, compared with the year before.

Environmentalists are questioning the legal justification offered for what would be the only active oil well inside the nation's first national forest.

Katariina Tuovinen helps run Yosemite National Park, serious work that has now won her new opportunities and national acclaim.

Guests at President Barack Obama's first state dinner were being treated to an eye-catching scheme of green and purple, from the green curry surrounding the prawns to the purple floral arrangements paying homage to the peacock, India's national bird.Pumpkin was on the menu, too, with Tuesday's dinner coming just two days before Thanksgiving.Hours ...

Officials at Bandelier National Monument have removed five unbranded, untagged feral bulls from the northern New Mexico monument.