Despite plunging border crossings, Trump administration is circumventing laws to expedite building in a vast, pristine wilderness ...

The Trump administration’s waiver of environmental laws to speed up border barrier construction in Texas’s Big Bend National ...

Approximately 323 million people visited American national parks in 2025, a 2.7% year-over-year decrease and the first annual decline since 2020. President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 signed the act ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Vipul Devluk stands on a rock along the Santa Elena Canyon trail in Big Bend National Park in this file photo from April 8, 2017.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With Mexico on the left and the U.S. on the right, a paddleboarder makes their way though Santa Elena Canyon on the Rio Grande ...

A group of Texas sheriffs is pushing back against the federal government’s plan to build a border wall through one of America’s largest national parks. Straddling southern Texas, Big Bend National ...

The National Park Service said a 14-year-old boy and his 31-year-old stepfather died last week after hiking at Big Bend National Park, where temperatures reached 119 degrees. Officials said the two ...

According to a contingency plan released by the Department of the Interior, open-air areas such as roads, trails, and overlooks will stay accessible, but staffed facilities like visitor centers will ...

Led by the Department of Rangeland, Wildlife and Fisheries Management in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the framework provides park managers with science-backed tools for ...