Additional stretches of the Blue Ridge Parkway were opened to traffic Friday morning, including a short section near Mount Pisgah in North Carolina.

Congress's voting records on national parks are laid out in a scorecard.

The recent eruption at Nāpau Crater was the first on Kīlauea’s middle East Rift Zone (ERZ) in six years. We often remember the Pu‘u‘ō‘ō and Maunaulu eruptions when thinking about the middle East Rift Zone, but many lesser-known eruptions occurred on the rift zone in the past 200 years, including 11 during the 1960s!