US National Parks News

A WINTER STORM WATCH has been issued for Central Maryland. Snow, sleet and freezing rain will be impacting Maryland Sunday starting in the mid to late morning and continuing through the day before turning over to rain Sunday night into Monday.

American survivors of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, many of them in their 90s, will gather on Saturday near Honolulu to mark the anniversary of the attack in 1941 that took the lives of more than two thousand of their peers and thrust the United States into World War II.

The struggle between life and death is not going so well for dozens of pilot whales stranded in shallow waters in Florida.

A Georgia man was indicted on conspiracy, Clean Water Act, false claims and related charges for allegedly dumping waste into the Potomac River from 2009 to 2011.

Mark Hoft as Macy, Bailey R. Center as Santa, Patrick Becker and Lydia Kivrak in the Tantallon Community Players production of “Miracle on 34th Street,” to Dec. 15 at Harmony Hall in Fort Washington.

Some cattle ranchers on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation say they'll fight plans for a large bison reserve being pursued by the Oglala Sioux Tribe.

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 .

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.

Visitors to Cape Hatteras National Seashore soon will have 29 new access points for exploring the seashore's beaches under a plan stemming from its off-road vehicle management plan.

Shows location and information about pilot whales stranded in the Everglades. ; 2c x 5 3/4 inches; 96.3 mm x 146 mm; .

Federal officials are expected to file charges against the person they believe started the wildfire that raged through Yosemite National Park and the Sierra Foothills earlier this year.

Pods of 35 pilot whales slowly swam Thursday into deeper water off Florida's southwest coast, raising optimism that the strandings of whales on Everglades National Park beaches may soon end on a positive note.

Officials in boats monitor the scene where dozens of pilot whales are stranded in shallow water in a remote area of Florida's Everglades National Park, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013.

Carl Ross Key and Frank Key Channel in Everglades National Park will be closed this winter to protect nesting Roseate Spoonsbills.

Wildlife workers are returning to Everglades National Park in Florida to try to lead 41 pilot whales out of dangerously shallow waters and back to the ocean waters where they belong.

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Starting December 1, 2013 through January 31, 2014 , boaters can apply for the lottery for the 2014 high use season multi-day river permits through Recreation.gov.

In this week's cover story, " The Sand Creek Massacre Healing Run honors the past, but is heading for the future ," Patricia Calhoun chronicles the fifteenth annual Healing Run, marking the November 29, 1864 massacre of 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho -- most of them women, children or elderly men -- by volunteer troops led by Colonel John Chivington.

Attempts to overhaul the nation's immigration system have been stalled for months in the Republican-controlled House, where leaders are refusing to consider a bipartisan Senate proposal passed last summer.

Six short-finned pilot whales have died and about 45 other whales were trapped Wednesday in shallow water off Florida's Everglades National Park.