Though the horses at Assateague Island National Seashore that straddles the Maryland-Virginia border are habituated to visitors, that doesn't mean they're tame. Some visitors haven't gotten that message, and one woman is lucky to be alive despite her ill-advised actions.

Though the National Park Service is more than a century old, and oversees parks that interpret the country's rich diversity, the agency itself struggles to attract minorities to its workforce.

An Arizona woman looking for a great photo of the Grand Canyon fell about 100 feet from the South Rim to her death.

Knowing that the nearest hospital was 100 miles away, and that it has just 25 beds and four ventilators, made it relatively easy for Big Bend National Park Superintendent Bob Krumenaker to decide to close his park to the public Thursday after one of his employees was diagnosed with Covid-19.