National Park Service personnel will conduct emergency repairs along an approximately seven-mile section of the Blue Ridge Parkway between milepost 298.5 and 305 this week.
At Metra Electric’s 111th St. Pullman station in Chicago, three privately owned railcars from a bygone era are parked on one side of the platform while plain jane commuter trains whiz by on the other side.
With a one-sentence ruling the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to consider the helicopter industry's challenge to commercial overflight bans at Badlands National Park and Mount Rushmore National Memorial.
A marina fire early Sunday morning at Lake Mead National Recreation Area in Nevada destroyed or damaged about 15 boats according to the National Park Service.
A proposed plan for managing bison at Yellowstone National Park has generally received plaudits, though it has its critics and leaves some questions unanswered about the future for the country's national mammal.
A ranger at Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah has died from injuries sustained after tripping and falling while on-duty during the park's annual Astronomy Festival.