US National Parks News

The late-night comedians love to needle AARP as the unflagging advance team for senility. They're the folks who send the dreaded membership invite when you hit 50, an otherwise sunny reminder that you're well on your way to that last roundup.

David Letterman, for one, suggested that Sylvester Stallone's latest geriatric version of Rambo should qualify for 'an AARP discount on ammo.' Jon Stewart joked that presidential candidates at an AARP-sponsored debate embraced the organization's principles, including that 'your grandchildren are, in fact, adorable.' The AARP debate was like others, Conan O'Brien observed, 'except the moderator asked the same question over and over.'

WASHINGTON : Construction on the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial is closer to commencing after a panel overseeing architecture in the nation's capital approved final building plans Thursday.

The National Park Service is closing campgrounds on the southern end of the Cape Hatteras National Seashore in preparations for Tropical Storm Hanna.

A $5,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of whoever killed a desert tortoise at a Joshua Tree National Park campground last month.

News Sentinel staff Originally published 12:11 p.m., September 4, 2008 Updated 12:11 p.m., September 4, 2008 Some streams in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will close starting Sunday as park officials ...

WASHINGTON -- Sally Field, Wynonna Judd and Leeza Gibbons will help the American Association for Retired Persons turn 50 Thursday with an event that's expected to attract thousands to the Lincoln Memorial in ...

One of 2,500 yellow-cheeked crested gibbon counted in a recent WCS survey. A new census in Cambodia reveals remarkably large populations of two monkey species that are threatened with extinction.

Seven was on your side in Montgomery County Wednesday, helping alert a utility to a major sewage leak in Rock Creek Park.

A DC cop is due in court today, after police say he was caught smoking marijuana in Rock Creek Park.

Most of Mississippi's barrier islands are open two days after Hurricane Gustav made landfall, but officials have yet to assess all the damage done by the powerful storm.

Montana has lost its federal disease-free status for brucellosis, triggering mandatory testing of cattle being shipped out-of-state. Brucellosis, which can cause female cattle to abort their young, has been ...

The Mississippi Department of Transportation announces the following traffic information on roads that reopened and closed in the state.

Glacier National Park officials are discontinuing regular searches for a 27-year-old Kentucky man who went missing during a planned 100-mile hike.

A traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is coming to Chicago. The Moving Wall is a memorial to the more than 58,000 military members killed during the Vietnam War.

The complaint came in to U.S. Park Police about two suspicious men at Grove 24 in Rock Creek Park.

A visit to Gettysburg National Military Park's museum may no longer be priceless.

A team from Pinnacles National Monument has left for Buenos Aires as a first step in creating a partnership to support condor recovery across continents, according to National Park Service Superintendent Eric ...

It will be a tribute to the men of the 9th Connecticut Regiment Volunteers - known as the Irish Regiment - who, in the summer of 1862, dug Grant's Canal across Louisiana 's DeSoto peninsula so Union ships could ...

The National Park Service says permits will be required to drive on Cape Hatteras National seashore beaches at night starting later this month.

Assemblyman Rick Merkt all but officially kicked off his Republican bid for Governor in Morristown today, saying he hopes to restore fiscal accountability and integrity to state government.