The Latest Breaking News from the National Park Service

Tritylodonts, mid-sized mammal-related herbivores, roamed the area’s deserts 200m years ago

Victorious bear who showed ‘dominant performance’ and ‘skill and toughness’ beat competition from 11 other bears in Alaska

The National Park Service is struggling to catch up with a maintenance backlog of more than $22 billion.

Don't cancel that camping trip just yet: Utah, Arizona, and Colorado state governments will foot the bill to keep some national parks open — and tourist dollars flowing — during the shutdown.

The National Park Service has turned to the public to help decide whether the famous wild horses in North Dakota’s Theodore Roosevelt National Park should stay or go

Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Ohio was added to UNESCO’s list of World Heritage sites on Sept. 19, 2023. The eight mound complexes that received this designation are spread across central and southern Ohio and were built between the beginning of the common era and the 12th century.

The Oak Fire last year threatened the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation's way of life. Now the tribe is restoring ancient heritage sites and cultural practices in collaboration with local agencies.

The impacts of climate change including related disasters, such as wildfires and sea level rise, are increasingly raising a question about how best to save cultural heritage.

The National Park Service will renew efforts to rid an area of the Colorado River in northern Arizona of invasive fish with a chemical treatment

The farm fields at the old Buchanan homestead weren't productive, so she hired a golfer to turn her fields into fairways.

‘What Emmett did, he gave up a lot, but it helped a lot of people. And he still speaks from the grave,’ Emmett Till’s cousin, the Rev. Wheeler Parker Jr., who witnessed Till being kidnapped, told the Sun-Times.