as previously reported by USA TODAY. Saguaro National Park in Tucson announced it was closing its two visitor centers on Mondays starting Feb. 24. At Yosemite National Park, officials announced ...

A prominent feature of the Yosemite Valley, this granite rock face rises up 4,737 feet above the valley floor (8,844 feet above sea level). In 1875, George Anderson scaled the rock face and ...

Layoff announcements soar to the highest since 2020 as DOGE slashes federal staff ...

Demonstrators unfurled the flag against El Capitan to protest the Trump administration's cuts to the National Park Service.

The annual Horsetail Fall event at Yosemite National Park − also known ... Fernando Cervantes Jr. is a trending news reporter for USA TODAY. Reach him at [email protected] and ...

The Department of the Interior told USA TODAY it was “aware of the unauthorized ... who participated in the demonstration included Yosemite National Park maintenance mechanic Gavin Carpenter ...

Eleven of Yosemite’s full-time staff members, including the park’s sole locksmith and a biologist received a termination email on February 14 – as did 1,000 permanent National Park Service ...

You Dozens of people were protesting for the workers who were laid off in Yosemite National Park. They even flew the American flag upside down off El Capitan. 1000 National Park workers were told ...

The annual Horsetail Fall event at Yosemite National Park − also known as the "Firefall" - is back with people vying for the perfect spot in the central California park to see the iconic ...

February is one of the busiest times of the year at Yosemite National Park thanks to “firefall,” a natural phenomenon that causes a glowing ribbon of water to look like molten lava cascading ...

Videos from Yosemite National Park show the iconic "Firefall" phenomenon glowing at Horsetail Fall inside the park.