Gunn Family Coyote Dog Park reopens Friday after a July tornado, but 80 percent of its trees are gone.

Kermit Ruffins will perform as the Audubon Wonders of Nature Express rolls out Thursday, replacing a worn 2009 train now up for auction.

A vacant oceanfront Wells Fargo now houses 21 kreisel tanks and roughly 20 jellyfish species, with a $100,547 city grant behind the makeover.

Oxford Bend Park will pack rain gardens, skateable features and 30-plus new trees onto a former fast-food parking lot near Deer Creek.

Raleigh's 1984-era neighborhood pool shuts Sunday, but a private-public deal with Wolfpack Elite will make it a year-round, heated facility.

A new fire station in Ward 6 and Cleveland's animal kennel are among the sites set to gain land-bank parcels alongside dozens of parks.

A six-year legal fight ends with a Wake County judge finding the state violated citizens' constitutional fishing rights.

Asphalt lots under the Cross Bronx Expressway are becoming a skate park, courts and green space for East Tremont families.

The Bronx Zoo's winter light trails now come with after-dark access to tigers, snow leopards, and a reopened nocturnal house.

Naturalist Kersti Muul reports the pod moving north along West Seattle's shoreline, close enough to spot from land.

Most of the tiny castaways arrived after their nests were disturbed at area beaches, veterinary staff say.

New basketball courts and greenery are replacing asphalt lots under the highway at Parks-Webster in the Bronx.

Anglers can now take home as many fish as they want from Banner Lakes near Keenesburg before drought conditions wipe out the fishery entirely.