US National Parks News

It became a national park in 1962. With one of the world's largest and most colorful concentrations of petrified wood, multi-hued badlands of the Painted Desert, historic structures, archeological sites, and displays of 225 million year old fossils, this is a surprising land of scenic wonders and fascinating science.

The bride was having second thoughts eight days after the wedding, sparking an argument between the newlywed couple that carried from their Kalispell, Mont., home to a popular trail in Glacier National Park.

The bride was having second thoughts eight days after her wedding, and the couple took their argument to a trail in Montana's Glacier National Park.

Pearl Harbor survivors watch a vintage WWII airplane fly over Pearl Harbor at the ceremony commemorating the 72nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2013, in Honolulu.

Phillips Simkin, 69, a Philadelphia artist who created installations using his humor and off-the-wall artistic vision, died Tuesday, Nov. 26, of congestive heart failure at his home.

A pod of pilot whales swims off the coast of Everglades National Park in Florida.

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.

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.