If Dan Wenk had been fired during his first year in a permanent job with the National Park Service, the agency would’ve lost ...

Summit Carbon Solutions’ plan to build a pipeline across five states included the right to use eminent domain in some states.

After years of planning, bikepackers and gravel grinders will have a chance to ride from Mexico to Canada on the Great Plains ...

Enjoy the dark, star-blanketed skies from the open-air lower deck, with its comfortable seating area and propane fire pit. It ...

Much of this volcanic ash comes from the Great Basin, a geographic area within which the states of Utah and Nevada lie today.

Retirees warn that staff reductions and seasonal hiring chaos could affect visitors and imperil natural resources ...

While South Dakota and Utah's badlands might be better known, New Mexico's colorful rock formations and remote badland ...

Seth is editor-in-chief of South Dakota Searchlight. He was previously a supervising senior producer for South Dakota Public ...

Retired National Park Service superintendents visited South Dakota Searchlight to express their concerns about Trump's mass ...

When an epidemic of plague struck prairie dogs within South Dakota’s greater Conata-Badlands ecosystem last spring, U.S. Fish ...

Judy Thompson grew up in an apartment perched above a lumberyard and a busy four-lane highway outside of Chicago. She rarely ...

Generally, compared to the iconic national parks of the Mountain West or the easier-to-reach parks of the East Coast, camping ...