US National Parks News

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will decide which quarter design will be used to commemorate Yellowstone National Park next year.

EMPLE HILLS, Md. - U.S. Park Police say a man was fatally struck by two U.S. Secret Service vehicles at a Suitland Parkway intersection.

The National Park Service says federal stimulus money will pay for resurfacing of about 60 miles of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park towpath from Hancock to Cumberland.

A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday upheld a 2005 court decision that effectively halted the development of what would have been one of the nation's largest landfills near Joshua Tree National Park.

Rangers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park found three lost hikers. A news release from the National Park Service on Tuesday said the hikers from Knoxville were all in good condition when rangers located them Monday evening in the Abrams Fall area of Cades Cove.

Dozens of wild bison from Yellowstone National Park might be moved to a Montana ranch owned by billionaire Ted Turner, who plans to keep 75 percent of the offspring for commercial purposes.The animals were spared from a slaughter program meant to protect Montana's cattle industry from a disease carried by many buffalo.The plan was to use the spared ...

LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA, Nev. -- The federal Interior Department says it'll spend $16.7 million in stimulus funds to improve roads at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in southern Nevada.

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander announced that the conference report to the Interior appropriations bill he co-authored and that passed the Senate today will fund a number of conservation efforts across Tennessee, including increased funding for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and other national parks, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and ...

To try DC Central Kitchen's house-brined pickles, click here for the recipe. Just a couple of blocks from the Washington Monument, the air carried the ripe, green scent of tomato plants, which were nestled in planters made from salvaged oak and locust planks.

Construction is wrapping up for the winter on part of the major reconstruction of the Going to Sun Road in Glacier National Park.

Pinedale's water and sewer districts should consider dissolving and be absorbed by the city of Fresno, a countywide agency recommended.

Yellowstone National Park officials will use $4.68 million in federal stimulus money to replace a 50-year-old wastewater treatment facility at Madison Junction.

Editor's note: This is the first in a year-long series the Citizen-Times is writing about the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, ending with the final celebration on Sept.

Instead of leading to the Washington Monument though, the walkway will be a path to a clock tower on a new Circuit Court building beside Hampton's Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court and General District Court.

Reservations are being accepted now for the season's last lantern tour of the Stones River Battlefield, which will take place Saturday.

Work has started on the Ramirez Solar House at the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.

Smokestack scrubbers will eliminate most of the sulfur emissions from the coal-fired Kingston Fossil Plant, but they will also produce a new waste stream for a site still engaged in a $1 billion cleanup from a massive ash spill.

Is there oil beneath this abandoned jetport in Big Cypress National Preserve? Historical Museum of Southern Florida photo.

The National Park Service says Hot Springs residents will see smoke rising from North Mountain in the middle of the city, but they shouldn't be concerned.

The man who survived a truck barreling over the edge of a cliff near Cabrillo National Monument is meeting his rescuers.