US National Parks News

Meet this 50-foot snowman named 'Granddaddy': A 50-foot snowman built by a farmer in Minnesota is named Granddaddy.

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Murfreesboro Fire & Rescue Department's Districts 4 and 7 responded to a car fire next to the home located at 1710 Avon Road around Crews arrived on scene to find a 1972 Cadillac Eldorado with heavy smoke exiting the engine compartment.

Las Vegas cab driver Keith Goldberg's siblings say they knew almost immediately that something terrible had happened to their brother when he went missing in January 2012.

On an icy island wilderness near the tip of Minnesota, a female gray wolf's demise has added to the debate about whether authorities should try to save the wolves of Isle Royale National Park.

Yellowstone National Park administrators say shipments of wild bison to slaughter are done for the winter after almost 600 animals were removed in an effort to shrink their numbers.

A rendering of the planned Washington Monument screening facility, a opaque glass cube that will fit 20-25 visitors at a time.

Glacier National Park in Montana offers winter snowshoe walks from January through March every weekend.

As New Mexico heads toward a potentially devastating fire season, there's a threat to to the state's public lands that may come as a surprise.

Long-standing friends Sammie Hallgren, Kirsta Graf and Tessah Indlecoffer at the Winter Week pepfest on Jan. 31. Kirsta Graf is well known among her peers and the faculty at Mounds View High School for her exuberance, positive attitude and her unwavering commitment to her school.

Due to the continued very high fire danger and current level of fire activity in the State of Utah, Superintendent Kate Cannon has announced fire restrictions for Arches and Canyonlands National Parks, and Natural Bridges and Hovenweep National Monuments.

Park rangers have arrested a man who chained himself to a cement-filled drum to protest the slaughter of bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park.

The University of Tennessee has fired Dr. Gary Sousa as director of the Pride of the Southland Band, but he will retain his faculty position in the school of music.

A new federal report says tourism at national parks in New Mexico generated about $81 million in visitor spending that benefited the state's economy.

According to a new National Park Service report nearly 274,000 people visited Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in Bayfield and Saint Croix National Scenic Riverway in St. Croix Falls in 2012.

Sat. 7AM 3rd Annual Special Kids Race starting at Murfreesboro Medical Clinic and continuing through the area along with the historic Stones River National Battlefield.

A new National Park Service report for 2012 shows that 5.6 million recreational visitors to the Natchez Trace Parkway spent $125.9 million in the communities surrounding the Park.

From the bridge of the Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw, northern Lake Huron looks like a vast, snow-covered field dotted with ice slabs as big as boulders -- a battleground for the icebreaker's 58-member crew during one of the roughest winters in memory.

This May 21, 2013 photo provided by the National Park Service shows wildlife biologist Terry Hines standing next to a massive scar on an old growth redwood tree in the Redwood National and State Parks near Klamath, Calif., where poachers have cut off a burl to sell for decorative wood.

The Google barge is seen docked on a pier along Treasure Island in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Nov. 8, 2013.