US National Parks News

This image from video provided by WJLA-TV shows Ryan Loskarn, chief of staff to Sen. A federal judge accepted a guilty plea Thursday from a Montana newlywed after she reached a surprise plea agreement and said she pushed her husband from a cliff in Glacier National Park.

Arkansas is nicknamed the Natural State, and its capital lives up to the moniker.

MISSOULA, Mont. - A Montana woman on trial for killing her newlywed husband at Glacier National Park told the FBI "I pushed him and I took off."

The legislation would designate battlefields at Davis Bridge and Fallen Timbers in Tennessee and Russell House - which is in Tennessee and Mississippi - as part of Shiloh National Military Park.

Although it will be several months before it's actually implemented, Wheeling's next comprehensive plan is beginning to take shape.

There are some travel destinations where sights, people and activities add up to much more than the sum of their parts.

A Montana coroner says a man who authorities say was pushed off a cliff at Glacier National Park by his newlywed wife had an 8-inch fracture on his forehead was not wearing a wedding ring when his body was found.

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.