National Park Service

The FBI is investigating the death of a National Park Service worker who law enforcement found with “severe injuries” last week, according to the National Park Service.

Laid-off employees who hung a U.S. flag upside-down at Yosemite National Park in a sign of “distress” said the action was a call to protect the nation’s public lands from privatization and to reinstate the thousands of federal workers who were recently fired.

A Louisiana landscape where centuries-old sugar cane plantations and Afro-Creole culture remain preserved along the Mississippi River will no longer be eligible for consideration for federal recognition following a request from state officials.

An American flag was hung upside down on El Capitan at Yosemite National Park on Saturday following the firing of about 1,000 National Park Service employees.

A New Hampshire woman suffered burns on her leg after hiking off trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.

Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico describe it as a “world-changing” event for the tiny microbes and insects that call this specialized subterranean environment home.

A single pipeline at the Grand Canyon delivers water to millions of visitors annually at the South Rim. Some visitors were surprised recently when they were shut out of hotels over the Labor Day holiday. The move was unprecedented. The leaks are a known problem. The pipeline that twists and turns through the inner canyon has broken dozens of times...

The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive a $100 million gift, marking the largest grant in its history.

Five people were able to escape a hot, acidic pond in Yellowstone National Park after the sport utility vehicle they were riding in went off the road and into an inactive geyser.

The man was killed by National Park rangers on the Fourth of July as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at a dining facility with about 200 people inside.

The National Park Service said temperatures on exposed parts of the trail can reach over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade.

Officials in Grand Canyon National Park on Monday stressed the danger that extreme heat poses after a Texas man collapsed and died on a trail over the weekend.