In 2024, the National Park Service reported a record-high number of people visiting the national parks - at more than 331 ...

The National Park Service has hired only about 3,000 of the 7,700 seasonal employees it pledged to find after the agency ...

The impact goes beyond just those who maintain the land. A mother from Carbondale describes the impact that these federal ...

Staffing cuts at Alaska's national parks will save taxpayer dollars. But also likely to limit land management, visitor ...

Philadelphia’s Independence National Historic Park is short-staffed and workers have been leaving the agency’s regional ...

less than two months into NC State's Will Wade era, the new staff in Raleigh is one of four schools "heating up the recruiting" for the 6-foot-4, 180-pound junior shooting guard, BIG SHOTS ...

Search and rescue teams aided an older adult female hiker May 4 at Silver Falls State Park who sustained a fall and had a minor head injury. The hiker, who was not named, fell near an embankment ...

An amateur rock collector recently hit the jackpot while exploring a state park in Arkansas. David DeCook, a Minnesota resident, unearthed a stunning 3.81-carat brown diamond at the Crater of ...

park staff have registered 220 diamonds in 2025, weighing more than 32 carats total. Five registered diamonds have weighed more than one carat each. Quick Facts about Crater of Diamonds State ...

Maryland's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) purchased the 445-acre Long Hill plantation estate for $3.3 million to create Wicomico County's first state park. Wicomico County Executive Julie ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A new state park is in the works for Texas, and it just got one step closer to a reality. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) announced Monday that it had finalized ...

(WCYB) — When Helene hit the region, the flooding caused major damage to many state parks ... thanks to volunteers and David Crockett Park staff. It has taken a tremendous volunteer effort ...