If you're planning to spend the holiday weekend in Yosemite National Park, you might run into smoky conditions on occasion due to two fires burning in the park.

The federal government has threatened to seize six California state parks if the Golden State temporarily closes them to cut costs and help close a serious budgetary gap. What’s the likelihood that the feds would actually do such a thing? Should Californians really care?

Now that New Mexico's Glorieta Pass Civil War Battlefield has an interpretive trail, visitors can take self-guided tours of the place where the “Gettysburg of the West” was fought.