NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

The Transcanyon Waterline which supplies water to the millions of people visiting the Grand Canyon National Park is planned to receive a $208 million repair.

It’s the fourth house to collapse since February 2022.

The portion of the New River impacted by the train derailment is part of a national park, and is believed to be older than the Appalachians.

A woman collapsed and died while hiking on Monday, as southwestern Texas experiences an "unseasonable" heat wave.

In the last year, management for 10 parks have released air-tour programs for sightseeing flights above their spaces.

Notable sites such as the Smoky Mountains and the Lincoln Memorial rounded out the top 10 visited places in the National Park System as visits began rebounding from 2021.

Officials say peak bloom dates were harder to predict after an unseasonably warm winter.

Yosemite National Park will be closed indefinitely as the park gets hit by unusually snowy weather, with some areas of the park accumulating 15 feet of snow, according to the National Park Service.

The Washington, D.C., cherry blossoms are forecast to peak later this month. The trees were a gift from Japan in 1912, and more have been planted since then.

“If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down … even if you feel the friendship has run its course.”

A piece of the SS Savannah — which broke apart more than 200 years ago — was likely found on a New York shoreline following the impact of Tropical Storm Ian last fall.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — The cherry trees in the nation’s capital are confused by Earth’s changing climate, with the iconic blossoms appearing earlier than expected because of the unusually warm winter. Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser and the National Park Service announced Wednesday that Washington’s 3,700 cherry blossom trees would reach peak bloom this year from March 22-25. “An early frost would definitely damage the blossoms,” Reinbold said. Cherry Blossom Festival President Diana Mayhew said this year’s bloom dates aren’t unprecedented, but they’re the second earliest she had witnessed in 23 years with the organization. Washington’s cherry blossoms date back 111 years to an original 1912 gift of 3,000 trees from the mayor of Tokyo.

Yellowstone National Park, a 2.2-million acre preserve of geological marvels and wildlife, became America's first national park on this day in history, March 1, 1872.

Yosemite National Park is closed until March due to unusually wintry weather in California, days after a massive rockfall was recorded by a tourist.

He was visiting Arches National Park with his family from Massachusetts.

The 56-year-old man was on a day hike to the Colorado River and back, park officials said.

A 56-year-old man from Pewaukee, Wisconsin, died Friday while hiking the Bright Angel Trail at the Grand Canyon during a day trip to the Colorado River, officials said.

The Lincoln Memorial will undergo a $69 million renovation beginning in March that will include a new museum beneath.

The new exhibit space, built into the memorial's cavernous "undercroft," will explore the history of President Lincoln and the monument that honors him. Construction is expected to finish in 2026.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — National Park Service employees swept through a large homeless encampment three blocks from the White House on Wednesday, disposing of about 50 tents and warning that people who resisted would be subject to arrest. The clearing of McPherson Square is just the latest development in a long-running saga involving the D.C. government, the Park Service and homeless people, whose advocates claim the city hasn't done enough to help them find safe shelter. The National Park Service, which has jurisdiction over McPherson Square and large swaths of other green space across the city, had originally announced plans to clear the square in April. NPS spokesman Mike Litterst said that despite the accelerated timeline, park residents still had about two weeks' notice. “The District’s social service providers intensified their efforts to connect people with housing and other services,” he said.

Sequoia National Park will restore public access to the Giant Forest starting this weekend. The Giant Forest was closed due to damaging storms pounding California.

Homeowners in Boulder Canyon, Colorado, are left "pleasantly surprised" after capturing footage of two mountain lions wandering together – as recorded on a Ring camera.

The National Park Service plans to clear the McPherson Square homeless encampment on February 15, amid D.C.’s hypothermia season

An elderly couple from Las Vegas, Nevada, was found dead in California's Death Valley National Park. Law enforcement officials discovered the husband and wife on Jan. 13.

A dead humpback whale was found Monday on the shores of a beach at Maryland's Assateague Island National Seashore. There were no obvious signs of the cause of death.

The National Park Service has announced that in 2023, there will be five days where admission to sites will be free to the public.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem tweeted that the Biden administration has once again blocked the state from hosting Independence Day fireworks at Mt. Rushmore.

JUNEAU, Alaska — (AP) — Bear hunters in Alaska would no longer be able to use bait, such as pastries, dog food or bacon grease, under a proposed rule by the National Park Service on Friday that would prohibit bear baiting in national preserves in the state. In September, U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason found problems with a 2020 Trump administration-era rule that lifted restrictions previously in place on sport hunting and trapping in national preserves in Alaska, including bear baiting. But the judge did not set the rule aside, and noted the park service had indicated it was already in the process of reassessing the rule. Bears that become habituated to non-natural foods used as bait pose a safety hazard to the public,” he said by email. A similar ban on bear baiting, enacted in 2015 during the Obama administration, was rescinded by the 2020 rule, the park service said.

The National Park Service is proposing a rule that would prohibit bear baiting in national preserves in Alaska.

No other remains were found after a search of Abyss Pool but investigators noted apparent "fatty tissues" floating in the 140-degree Fahrenheit pool.

Dry Tortugas National Park is closed while authorities process the migrants, amid a recent uptick in arrivals to the Florida Keys.

The National Park Service says it will reopen part of Playalinda Beach and Canaveral National Seashore Tuesday after spending two months trying to restore the beach following hurricanes Ian and Nicole.

A married couple from San Jose, California, was killed in a rockslide at Yosemite National Park on Tuesday, park officials said.

North Carolina's coastline — known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic — is home to thousands of shipwrecks, and experts have a theory about this one.

The rappeller's ropes were too short, and, in a scenario all too common in climbing, he fell to the ground.

Wilbur and Orville Wright allegedly became the first to successfully fly a powered and controlled airplane on this day in history, Dec. 17, 1903. Here's their remarkable story.

P-22 had close encounters with residents and apparently attacked two dogs, leading officials to seek him.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife's announcement comes after the mountain lion killed a dog last month and attacked another last week.

Last month the Aimee Copeland Foundation and Georgia DNR debuted a fleet of all-terrain wheelchairs for free park use. A movement has begun.

An endangered nocturnal seabird fledgling was seen on camera for the first time emerging from a burrow on a volcano, officials say.

This week the U.S. Navy and the National Park Service will host a remembrance ceremony at Pearl Harbor on the 81st anniversary of the 1941 Japanese bombing.

Park officials believe the 31-year-old succumbed to hypothermia

A Montana judge said he would decide Tuesday whether to continue temporary limits on wolf hunting in the state or to restore quotas and hunting methods before a trial over whether the public was given an adequate opportunity to weigh in on changes in the way the state estimates the size of the wolf population.

SPRINGDALE, Utah — A woman has died and a man was rescued after they were caught in cold weather while hiking Wednesday in Utah’s Zion National Park, officials say. The Zion National Park Search and Rescue Team went out to the area and located the man on Riverside Walk. NPS said that the Zion National Park’s response had more than 20 search and rescue team members. According to NPS, other visitors tried to give the woman CPR before rescue crews arrived. According to the AP, the man and woman have not been identified by NPS.

The couple was on a 16-mile trek through The Narrows, one of the park’s most popular hikes.

A campground located along the Bright Angel Trail will be called Havasupai Gardens following a government decision

The name change came after a formal request from the Havasupai tribe, park officials said.

The brand is coincidentally named “Neverbreak Trunks.”

They are “masters at camouflage,” the National Park Service says.

Hurricane Nicole brought a storm surge of around 5 feet to Northeast Florida, which could be responsible for washing the trunk ashore.

Foul play is not suspected in his death, park officials said.

Yellowstone National Park officials say a foot found floating in a hot pool last summer belonged to a 70-year-old man from Los Angeles.

Grizzlies used to thrive in Washington state's North Cascades. The federal government is launching a study to examine bringing them back.

Two agencies will investigate bringing grizzlies back to the Pacific Northwest

SPOKANE, Wash. — (AP) — Environmental groups on Thursday hailed a decision by the Biden administration to resume studying whether grizzly bears should be restored to the remote North Cascades ecosystem in Washington state. Fish and Wildlife Service said they would jointly prepare an environmental impact statement on restoring the endangered bears to the North Cascades. The agencies began a study of restoring grizzly bears to the North Cascades through a trapping and relocation process in 2015. The North Cascades is one of the largest wild areas in the lower 48 states, encompassing more than 9,500 square miles centered on North Cascades National Park. Approximately three to seven grizzly bears would be released into the North Cascades each year over roughly five to 10 years.

Environmental groups are hailing a decision by the Biden administration to resume studying whether grizzly bears should be restored to the remote North Cascades ecosystem in Washington state.

WASHINGTON — The National Park Service is offering Gold Star Families and U.S. military veterans the opportunity to get a free lifetime military pass. The free military lifetime pass is also available for Gold Star Families, which are next-of-kin to a member of the Armed Forces who lost their life in war, terrorist attack or military operation while serving with the Armed Forces. Gold Star Family members can download and print a voucher to present to park staff to get a pass. For current U.S. military members and their dependents, NPS offers a free annual military pass. The military pass program does not cover extra amenity fees, such as camping, tours or special recreation permits.

Idaho's top wildlife official says the state's wolf population appears to be holding steady despite recent changes by lawmakers that allow expanded methods and seasons for killing wolves.

A levee was breached Monday in a small town near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the evacuations of 60 people after a weekend of flash floods across the American Southwest that also swept away one woman who is still missing in Utah’s Zion National Park.

Death Valley National Park’s most popular sites will reopen to the public on Saturday, two weeks after massive flash-flooding.

Yellowstone National Park officials say part of a foot found in a hot spring this week is believed to be linked to a July 31 death.

Yellowstone National Park officials are investigating after an employee spotted part of a foot, in a shoe, floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park.

Authorities say a main roadway into Death Valley National Park will remain closed into next week as crews clean up after record-breaking rains damaged the roadway and choked it with mud, rocks and debris.

Hundreds of hotel guests trapped by flash flooding at Death Valley National Park were able to drive out after crews cleared a path for them.

Record rainfall triggered flash flooding at Death Valley National Park that buried cars, forced officials to close all roads in and out the park and stranded about 1,000 people.

Officials have closed some roads in and out of Death Valley National Park after they were inundated over the weekend with mud and debris caused by by flash flooding.

California firefighters have gained ground against a wildfire that poses a threat to a famous grove of giant sequoias and a small community in Yosemite National Park.

Officials say part of Yosemite National Park has been closed and hundreds of people evacuated nearby as a wildfire rages near a grove of California’s famed giant sequoia trees.

Confirming their worst fears for record-low lake levels, National Park Service fisheries biologists have discovered that a non-native predator fish has made its way through Glen Canyon Dam to the lower Colorado River, where it can prey on ancient native fish they have been working to reestablish.

Flooding has wiped out roads and bridges and closed off all entrances to Yellowstone National Park at the onset of the busy summer tourist season.

On this first day of the Atlantic hurricane season, federal officials are announcing a new initiative to modernize building codes.

New Mexico 's governor says the state faces a long and potentially devastating wildfire season as Southwestern wildfires cause destruction and force people from their homes.

Destructive U.S. Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger, as wind-fueled flames chewed up wide swaths of tinder dry forest and grassland and plumes of smoke filled the sky.

One of this year’s entrance fee-free days is coming up at our country’s National Parks, meaning if you want to visit, you won’t have to pay admission.

A judge has restored federal protections for gray wolves across much of the U.S. after they were removed in the waning days of the Trump administration.

A shuttered bowling alley at the center of a 1968 integration protest where state police killed three Black students is being remade into a civil rights center.

Montana wildlife commissioners are shutting down gray wolf hunting and trapping in areas bordering Yellowstone National Park amid criticism over 23 wolves being killed after roaming from the park in recent several months.

Sequoia National Park is reopening its Giant Forest area, three months after extraordinary efforts saved the grove as Northern California wildfires destroyed thousands of other redwoods.

Two mountain lion kittens that survived after a litter of four was found under a picnic table are being cared for at a California veterinary hospital.

National Park Service officials say dozen ancient alligator juniper trees have been illegally cut down in the El Malpais National Monument in western New Mexico.

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.

Fossilized footprints discovered in New Mexico indicate that early humans were walking across North America around 23,000 years ago.

The search for Gabby Petito’s fiancé at a Florida wildlife reserve continued Sunday after his family told investigators they believe he went into the area earlier this week, according to the North Port Police Department.

As we inch closer to the 20th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, it feels fitting that we’re seeing more and more tributes and events pop up to remember the day.

Wildfires burning in the U.S. this summer have upended plans for countless outdoor adventures.

The National Park Service is pushing back against a Federal Aviation Administration report recommending approval of a launch pad for commercial rockets off the Georgia coast.

The water level at Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border has hit a historic low amid a climate change-fueled megadrought engulfing the U.S. West.

Federal wildlife officials have decided to list the Sierra Nevada red fox as an endangered species.

Scientists say wolf pups have been spotted again at Isle Royale National Park.

The family of a women’s rights activist from Uganda has sued the National Park Service after she was decapitated last year by a gate at Utah’s Arches National Park.

A draft study says at least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoias were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year.

Rangers who keep an eye on North America’s highest mountain peak say impatient and inexperienced climbers are taking more risk this season.

Biologists studying Southern California bobcats found a mother and three kittens this spring in an unusual den in a cavity up in a tree in an area intensely burned by a huge 2018 wildfire west of Los Angeles.

A young alligator traced to the Louisiana bayous traded swamp scum for a sandy Padre Island beach in South Texas.

More than 45,000 people have applied for one of a dozen spots to help thin a herd of bison at Grand Canyon National Park.

A giant sequoia has been found smoldering and smoking in a part of Sequoia National Park that burned in one of California’s huge wildfires last year.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has sued the U.S. Department of Interior in an effort to see fireworks shot over Mount Rushmore on Independence Day.

Want to get outside? Or are you looking to plan a little getaway? The country’s national parks are incredible places to consider.

FILE - In this March 29, 2016, file photo, signs call attention to the house where slain African-American leader Malcolm X spent part of his childhood in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. According to the National Park Service the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in February 2021. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)BOSTON – Malcolm X’s boyhood home in Boston was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The former Malcolm Little was a teenager in the 1940s when he came to live with his sister, Ella Little Collins. Little Collins, a civil rights organizer in her own right, became her brother’s legal guardian after his father died and his mother was institutionalized.

Workers from the National Park Service clear snow and ice at the White House, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, in Washington. Trump pulled the U.S. out of the WHO, but Biden moved quickly after his inauguration last month to rejoin and confirmed that the U.S. would contribute to COVAX. AdThe $4 billion in U.S. funding was approved by Congress in December and will be distributed through 2022. In addition to discussing vaccine distribution, Biden also plans to use the meeting to discuss G-7 countries' collective competitiveness and economic challenges posed by China, according to the White House. Biden is also scheduled to deliver a virtual address to the Munich Security Conference on Friday before traveling to Michigan to visit Pfizer's vaccine manufacturing facility.