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A federal judge in Florida ordered a halt Thursday to further construction on "Alligator Alcatraz," a detention center for undocumented immigrants located inside Big Cypress National Preserve.
A helicopter works the Dragon Bravo fire/Inciweb The ferocious Dragon Bravo fire is 29% contained as of Thursday morning, more than double from the day before. That's rare good news since the fire ...
Heavy rainfall has led to undercutting of a stretch of the Newfound Gap Road that crosses Great Smoky Mountains National Park from Tennessee to North Carolina, forcing a temporary closure of the route ...
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.
Three Ohio residents are facing the potential of prison time following their arrest in connection with a road rage incident at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in which shots were fired, according ...
Initial work is starting on a $6.4-million project to improve the historic Summit Road at Scotts Bluff National Monument in Nebraska.
Older than Yellowstone National Park in terms of being set aside for the public's enjoyment, Yosemite could fairly be called the elder statesman of the National Park System. And, no doubt, there are ...
A controversial wind farm project proposed to be located near Minidoka National Historic Site in Idaho has been scrapped by the Trump administration.
Hot, dry weather conditions in the extended forecast across the West figure to offer no relief to the thousands of firefighters tasked with taming the flames.