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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from allowing commercial fishing in the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument.
More than 30 sites in the Julian Price Campground on the Blue Ridge Parkway will reopen on August 15.
Roughly half of Newfound Gap Road across Great Smoky Mountains National Park remains closed due to a partial washout of the route, though officials hope repairs can be completed by early October.
A broken pipeline has forced restrictions on water usage on the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
A few more miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway that had been closed since Hurricane Helene ripped through North Carolina last fall reopened to motorists on Monday.
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A wildfire fanned by winds gusting to 40 miles per hour destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge and surrounding cabins at Grand Canyon National Park, where the North Rim had been closed to the ...
U.S. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah single-handedly appears to have produced what just might be the most unified, and broadly dispersed, opposition to anti-conservation legislation ever considered by Congress.
Scientists this month are kicking off a two-year project in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to find out where hellbenders live and how healthy those populations are.
Park roads like Generals Highway, Trail Ridge Road, Going-to-the-Sun Road, Skyline Drive, and the Blue Ridge Parkway take us through and to many amazing locations which we might not otherwise be able ...
The National Park Service would lose more than 5,500 employees under President Trump’s Fiscal 2026 budget proposal, one that would have far-reaching impacts to the agency's mandate and which Defenders ...