The National Park Service awarded $3.29 million through the American Battlefield Protection Program to protect 120 acres at battlefields in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Work continues on restoring George W. Childs Park in Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, but the popular area isn't expected to reopen to the public utnil next spring or summer.

Drivers should be able to expect smooth rides along the Kolob Canyons Road in Zion National Park this winter, as repairs will soon start to rebuild a portion of the road damaged by a landslide earlier in the year.

The National Park Service can't successfully manage its multi-billion-dollar maintenance backlog "due to inaccurate and unreliable data" that has made it impossible to accurately state the cost of the backlog, according to the Interior Department's Inspector General, though the agency strongly disagrees.