This left a gap in the fossil record, but Petrified Forest National Park didn’t get its name for nothing: The volcanic ash that burst from California’s Mojave Desert ended up in northeast Arizona’s ...

Oklahoma has nearly 1,500 sites on the National Register of Historic Places, and has now added two more properties.

A town trustee says it’s been 15 years since Nederland started discussing a fire evacuation route critical to one of its communities.

The group, which helped classify Staten Island as the 'Borough of Parks,' works to protect the area's natural ecology.

National park status could significantly boost tourism, potentially drawing nearly ten times the current annual visitors. The Muscogee Nation, whose ancestors were displaced from the area, will ...

Alcatraz was first used as a jail during the American Civil War. It later became a federal penitentiary in 1934, closing less than 30 years later.

Significant rainfall from storms caused flash flooding in parts of Montgomery County, Maryland, located north of Washington, ...

Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs toured the destruction left by a wildfire along the Grand Canyon’s North Rim on Saturday, surveying what she described as devastating da ...

A new welcome center at the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument tells the story of the land from the perspective of its original inhabitants.

The governor, who has called for an investigation into how the blaze was handled, sought to gather information ahead of ...

Near the North Rim fire scene on July 19, Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs said repeatedly she was not second-guessing the response.