For nearly a century, so-called “ugly laws” banned people with visible disabilities and diseases from public spaces, revealing society’s harsh standards of beauty and the impact on those who ...

Hipparchus’s star catalog is the oldest known attempt to document the positions of as many objects in the night sky as possible, and it was the first time that two coordinates were used to ...

Lawmakers are currently pushing for the largest sell-off of public lands in U.S. history. So we put together a list of some ...

Opening all 13 campgrounds in Yosemite will make about 500 campsites available to the public as they visit the popular California national park, which saw more than 4 million visitors in 2024. "We're ...

Yosemite National Park is set to open all of its campgrounds for the first time since 2019, park officials said. SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to main content ...

With the death of 18-year-old Pandora Kjolsrud and 17-year-old Evan Clark, three teenagers have been found dead in Arizona's Tonto National Forest since February.

UPDATE: The order closing the Icicle Creek area near Leavenworth has been rescinded, according to the U.S. Forest Service.The area reopened to the public on Sunday, June 8, at 8 a.m. Overnight ...

Lawsuits are accusing property insurers of forcing homeowners onto the state’s FAIR Plan. Also, how California’s insurance crisis is impacting foster care in the Central Valley. Finally, the ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Two Utah campgrounds recently ranked in Hipcamp’s “50 Favorite Places to Camp in America Right Now.” The website helps campers find outdoor sites to stay at, similar to Airbnb or Vrbo ...

Prairie Legacy Productions and the Columbia Chamber of Commerce are promoting a three-day event that’s billed as a cast reunion for the television series “Little House on the Prairie” at ...

The Wood Duck Project is located in the Townsend Ranger District of the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest in the Big Belt Mountains. The total project area is roughly 70,000 acres, of which there ...

PAYETTE NATIONAL FOREST, Idaho — The Payette National Forest announced on Tuesday that it has temporarily closed the majority of its ranger district offices due to losses in personnel.