Proposed Chapter 94 changes would strengthen heritage-tree preservation requirements.

Day passes often sell out at this Vanderpool park, and reservations open a month ahead of your visit.

All 32 rooms at the new Cheaha lodge overlook the bluffs, and online reservations open next week.

A community board panel sided with Parks over a petition topping 2,600 signatures to spare the park's outdoor fitness area.

The nearly two-acre dog park opens to members Monday, with a public grand opening and ribbon-cutting set for Oct. 27.

Standing-room-only trains and stuck traffic at Kaaterskill Falls greeted this past weekend's leaf peepers, as near-peak color spreads across the region.

A mouse smaller than a human thumb now has six populations statewide, with researchers using fake owls and red-lit dens to prep it for the wild.

A hill slide, water play feature and bat-friendly cave gate are among the new features in Roanoke Park's South Meadow.

Rural counties pocket most of the cash as North Carolina protects habitat for 68 rare species statewide.

The Outdoor Pool, more than 80 years old, has been leaking an estimated 110,000 gallons a day. Oak Ridge is finally funding a fix.

Four-month-old siblings from Sacramento splashed into the Puente al Sur habitat, ending a near 10-year capybara drought at the zoo.

The Pacific Marine Mammal Center's new campus sits on a 1928 animal shelter barn and can now treat dolphins alongside seals.

A rollover near Lynden sent bees swarming across Weidkamp Road before volunteers rebuilt hundreds of colonies by hand.