Visitors will be able to enjoy a half-mile loop through the narrow passages and steep sections of the stunning marble cavern ...

Trees play a major role in your life, from your morning walks to shading your house from the sun. Unfortunately, warming temperatures, wildfires, insects, and disease are wiping trees out faster than ...

Yosemite National Park will have a timed entry reservation system this summer after all. The news comes after several weeks of uncertainty around whether the popular California park, which routinely ...

LATEST March 31, 1:35 p.m. Despite a drafted news release circulating last week about the apparent approval of a 2025 reservation system for Yosemite National Park, no such release has been issued ...

Federal authorities are investigating after a woman died after she was found with severe injuries at Yosemite National Park last week, according to the National Park Service. "NPS is investigating ...

March 2025 already had a total lunar eclipse, and coming up next is a partial solar eclipse on Saturday, March 29. Astronomy fans can experience the partial solar eclipse in parts of North America ...

It is often called “Arizona’s Yosemite” due to the high ramparts rising above the canyon floor. The rhyolite cliffs were formed by ash and magma deposits from volcanic events dating back ...

For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa ...

A woman has died after being found with severe injuries at Yosemite National Park last Thursday, the National Park Service said. NPS, in a statement to USA TODAY Thursday said it "is investigating ...

L.J. Smith wrote The Vampire Diaries novels, which inspired the hit CW series of the same name. Written right before the vampire romance era, the novels were very successful, largely due to Smith’s ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Traffic is hectic in and out of Yosemite Valley. The National Park Service advises travelers to arrive before 8 a.m. to avoid hourslong delays. – Catherine Parker Unless ...

This "rare cosmic phenomenon", called an Einstein ring, appears as a single eye-like orb in the darkness of space, but is actually a distorted view of two distant galaxies in the constellation Hydrus.