Mount Rushmore National Memorial News

A spokesman for Mount Rushmore National Memorial says Superintendent Gerard Baker is on an unexpected medical leave and that an acting superintendent has taken over for the next several weeks.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial welcomes the arrival of John C. Scott as the acting superintendent of the Memorial.

Severe weather and deteriorating road conditions have forced the temporary closure of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

A large, powerful autumn snowstorm slowly moved out of Colorado Thursday and trudged toward Nebraska and Kansas, causing blizzard-like conditions on the eastern plains and leaving in its wake treacherous roads and hundreds of canceled flights.

"Set in stone" takes on new meaning with two educational programs at the N.C. Arboretum.

The 75th Anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway will officially get underway Nov.

Buoyed by the astounding triumph of anti-W. hysteria over good old-fashioned sanity in Oslo, Norway, a trifecta of liberal intellectuals has launched a campaign to add the face of Barack Obama to that of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

LORI EAGON, WHO WORKS AT THE SUPER VALUE GROCERY STORE IN RHAME SAID THE PEOPLE IN THE TINY TOWN OF 190 WERE JOKINGLY WISHING EACH OTHER A MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Many things happened this long ago year. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began in San Francisco Bay.

Mount Rushmore National Memorial will be illuminated Friday evening into Saturday morning in remembrance of the Sept.

The Lowell National Historic Park will be making it big in the smallest of ways 10 years from now, when the park will grace the back of one of 56 new quarters being planned by the U.S. Mint to commemorate national landmarks.

Nearly seventy years after its completion, Mount Rushmore National Memorial remains one of Americaa TMs most famous landmarks.

Physics Today : CyArk , a US nonprofit organization, and the US National Park Service are aiming to digitally preserve Mount Rushmore in South Dakota next month by scanning it with a series of laser beams.

The stoic faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln will never know what hit them.

"First Greenpeace, now Sturgis. I tell you Abe, this is a rough summer." NPS photo by Ed Menard.

The stoic faces of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt and Lincoln will never know what hit them.

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. A federal grand jury has indicted Greenpeace and 11 individuals for conspiracy and other misdemeanors for hanging a Global Warming banner from Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Get breaking news and daily headlines. Browse all e-mail newsletters In this picture provided by the environmental group Greenpeace, Greenpeace climbers rappel down the face of Mount Rushmore National Memorial in Keystone, S.D. on Wednesday, July 8, 2009 to unfurl a banner that challenges President Obama to show leadership on global warming.

The following news release information was provided by the U.S. Attorney's office: United States Attorney Marty J. Jackley has announced a federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment earlier today charging eleven individuals and Greenpeace, Inc., a California corporation, each with three or more misdemeanor offenses relating to a July 8, ...

Here is the latest South Dakota news from The Associated Press SIOUX FALLS, S.D. A federal judge will hear arguments today in Sioux Falls over a lawsuit challenging a law that requires doctors to tell women seeking abortions that the procedure ends a human life.