National Park Service

The U.S. Senate has unanimously approved the nomination of Charles “Chuck” Sams III as National Park Service director, which will make him the first Native American to lead the agency that oversees more than 131,000 square miles of parks and other landmarks.

A California condor egg has hatched in Northern California’s wild, the newest member of Pinnacles National Park’s recovery program for the endangered species.

Face masks are now required in all National Park Service buildings, and on land maintained by the Park Service when physical distancing is not possible, federal officials announced Tuesday.  Visitors and employees must wear masks indoors, plus outdoors on Park Service land when social distancing cannot be maintained, “including [on] narrow or busy trails, overlooks and historic homes,” a...

The National Park Service says it’s investigating an incident in which a visitor was tased by a ranger at Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico.

The historic home of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is now a national monument, the U.S. interior secretary and members of Mississippi’s congressional delegation announced Thursday. The designation for the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home was required by a law President Donald Trump signed in March 2019. The Interior Department said in a news release Thursday that Tougaloo...

A Flagstaff, Arizona, man has pleaded guilty to starting a wildfire at the Grand Canyon during a backpacking trip.

Three of America’s best-known national parks — Yellowstone, Grand Teton and Great Smoky Mountains — closed their gates Tuesday as parks struggle to keep popular recreation areas open while heeding warnings from officials urging them to prevent spreading the coronavirus at congested sites.

Most national parks are open as a refuge for Americans tired of being stuck at home because of the coronavirus

The newly upgraded elevator at the Washington Monument stopped working just days after reopening to the public following a three-year, $15 million renovation project.

For the first time in three years, you can go to the top of the Washington Monument and see panoramic views of the Capitol, all the monuments and everything in between.

Specialists are using lasers to clean up the black biofilm on the Jefferson Memorial dome.

It’s a tiny solution to a huge problem. A little bug from Brazil, called a thrip, may be the best tool Florida scientists have ever had in their decades-old fight against the invasive Brazilian peppertree.

Charlie 5 had no plans to move that hot June morning. The 9-foot-long Burmese python was comfortably nestled in a muddy hollow, well-hidden in a thicket of saw grass and alligator flag in Big Cypress National Preserve.

A man who set himself ablaze Wednesday on the ground of the White House Ellipse has died, U.S. Park Police say.

Long cracks have formed in the national World War II Memorial on the mall in Washington, D.C. A 20-foot hairline fracture is visible on a major pillar on the Atlantic side of the site. Several smaller cracks are forming on the District of Columbia pillar.

After more than 15 years, the iconic fireworks show on the National Mall is moving away from the Washington Monument.

Divers are in the waters of Biscayne National Park and trying to solve a mystery almost two centuries old. The underwater archeologists with the National Park Service are out to make rare find. They are on a hunt for a ship called the Guerrero that was carrying slaves to the Americas.

Get into any national park for free on Saturday and Thursday, April 25 during National Park Week.

Another visitor has died at Grand Canyon National Park after a man fell 400 feet over the South Rim, authorities said Thursday. Park rangers responded to a call shortly before noon Wednesday that someone had fallen over the rim. The park’s helicopter and technical rescue team recovered the body of a 67-year-old man. The name and hometown of the man...

Another visitor has died at Grand Canyon National Park after a man fell 400 feet over the South Rim, authorities said Thursday. Park rangers responded to a call shortly before noon Wednesday that someone had fallen over the rim. The park’s helicopter and technical rescue team recovered the body of a 67-year-old man. The name and hometown of the man...