For a couple nights in May an extreme solar storm created a beautiful night sky for many people in areas that normally are too far away to see auroras. Some of the GPS stations in Yellowstone are among the tools used to monitor space weather like that solar storm.

With housing woes for National Park Service employees not expected to be resolved in the near term, Friends of Acadia continues its work to find, or create, housing for Acadia National Park employees.

A painting by Weir Farm National Historical Park Artist-in-Residence Alumni Alissa Siegal has been added to the Interior Department's museum in Washington, D.C.

A 52-year-old father and his 23-year-old daughter perished in Canyonlands National Park in Utah after getting lost and running out of water in 100°+ Fahrenheit heat, according to the park.

Wolves that were able to obtain human food and garbage at Isle Royale National Park in and around Rock Harbor and campgrounds located on the east end of the island have led to new food storage guidelines to ensure the safety of visitors and wildlife.

Mechanical problems forced a flightseeing plane with nine aboard to make a forced landing inside Denali National Park and Preserve, with the aircraft coming down near the Tokositna Glacier. No injuries were reported in the incident

Five visitors to Yellowstone National Park escaped with non-life-threatening injuries when the car they were riding in went off the Grand Loop Road and sank into a thermal feature near Roaring Mountain.

A week-long celebration of the Indigenous history of the land within Yellowstone National Park will kick off August 4 in Gardiner, Montana, just outside the park's northern entrance.

A campfire ban will take effect Saturday for Olympic National Park and the Olympic National Forest in Washington state due to rising temperatures and increasingly dry conditions.

Warm water temperatures and low stream flows are leading to fishing closures in some streams in Yellowstone National Park.

Katmai National Park and Preserve is celebrating a winning design by a 13-year-old student from Newhalen, Alaska, that is featured on the Brooks Camp bear pins this summer.

Saratoga National Historical Park should be renamed Saratoga National Battlefield Park to "more accurately reflect the historical significance of the site and emphasize the crucial military engagements that took place there," said U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik.

Heading to Glacier National Park next week and wondering what you can do after driving the Going-to-the-Sun Road? There's a special ranger program scheduled for July 18 that might be good to add to your to-do list.

You've checked off many of the crown jewels of the National Park System — Yellowstone, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Everglades — so where do you head next?

National Park Service archaeologists working at Minute Man National Historical Park in Massachusetts recently discovered five musket balls that were fired during the world-changing event known as “The Shot Heard Round the World” on April 19, 1775.

Firing a semi-automatic rifle while walking toward Canyon Lodge in Yellowstone National Park, the Florida man reportedly was determined to conduct a mass shooting on July 4 when law enforcement rangers killed him in a shootout that left one ranger wounded.

Zion National Park staff, after eight years of work, is developing a suite of strategies — including reservation systems — for use in protecting park resources and the visitor experience from accelerating tourism.

In the late 1800s, geologists studying the Great Plains region of the United States puzzled over strange deposits. For example, a "white, flour-like earth" in Nebraska. Although initially thought to be from nearby hot springs, under the microscope it was determined that these deposits, which could be found across the region, were from volcanic ash that had rained down from some huge prehistoric eruption.

The National Park Service recently issued a prospectus seeking proposals for the operation of LeConte Lodge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A 50-year-old Texas man, returning to the South Rim of Grand Canyon National Park after a night spent at a campground halfway to the Colorado River, collapsed and died about 100 feet below the rim.