The National Park Service taps Kevin Heatley to lead the park.

A man who ventured off trail in a hydrothermal area of Yellowstone National Park is banned from the park for life and will serve jail time.

Work to extend the Sleeping Bear Heritage Trail at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore has been put on hold following talks between the National Park Service and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.

A federal judge, though sympathetic to the plight of feral horses at Cumberland Island National Seashore, has dismissed a lawsuit asking her to order the National Park Service to remove them to a more suitable home.