Eight years before Yellowstone was established as America’s first national park, President Abraham Lincoln signed a document ...

Yosemite National Park staffers hung an American flag upside down from the park's El Capitan summit over the weekend to ...

A photograph accurately shows a U.S. "distress" flag hung upside down from the side of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park ...

Yosemite National Park staff hung an upside-down U.S. flag on El Capitan summit to protest staff firings at the park by the ...

As visitors descended on Yosemite National Park to witness its iconic “Firefall” event, an upside-down American flag was hung ...

Tensions over cost-cutting and maintaining Yosemite have been building, as fired federal workers stage protests at the country’s third-oldest national park.

A group of climbers, some who used to work for the Park Service, intended to raise awareness about how recent federal job ...

If Yosemite became a California state park tomorrow, would it turn into a strip mall?

After approximately 1,000 firings, followed by a promise to increase seasonal workers, here's where the NPS stands.

Six people hung an upside-down "distress" American flag at Yosemite National Park. A rift is emerging between the east and ...

The terminations at national parks and forests have left workers bewildered and worried not only for themselves but for the ...

Traditionally, hanging the American flag upside down symbolizes a distress call. Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with ...