McGraw Construction will expand Wyoming's only dog park and clean up Plaster Creek as phase one of a bigger overhaul.

About 100 volunteers will swing hammers at Newell Park Thursday, replacing play equipment that's stood since 1995.

Grand Rapids scheduled Unity Park's grand opening for October 14, with a hammock grove and inclusive playground — but the naming fight behind it still isn't fully resolved.

The 387-acre former oil field once known as Banning Ranch is finally under construction, with a visitor center and trails years in the making.

The Living Desert planted native blooms at Cabot's Pueblo Museum to feed bees, butterflies and even bats.

Redrock, Rosalyn, and Erie returned to Florida this week from the Columbus Zoo, each having grown from orphaned pups into healthy young manatees.

Chatfield State Park's sold-out witch paddle draws hundreds Saturday, while a 250-person waitlist proves the costumed tradition keeps growing.

Giraffe Tessa could deliver her fifth and likely final calf any day, and the Cincinnati Zoo is preparing to livestream the birth.

The McDowell Sonoran Preserve is marking its anniversary even as courts weigh whether Scottsdale's funding tax is legal.

The new Plano Parkway park sits on Lewisville ISD land adjacent to Hebron High School and opens Saturday with a ribbon-cutting.

Embshoff Woods, a Delhi Township favorite since 1981, is getting new baskets, tee pads and double the holes.

Yellow tiger swallowtails and black swallowtails were caught puddling on damp ground at the North Carolina refuge, a behavior tied to reproduction.

State hatcheries hand out spawned-out kokanee each fall, but drought-related low water delayed at least one local giveaway in October because too few fish had reached their home hatchery.