Pierce County detectives say the remains belong to William Nelson Church Jr., a young father who vanished from Tacoma in the late 1970s.

ASHFORD, Wash. — Timed entry at Mount Rainier National Park will not be implemented this year, the National Park Service announced. The park service will use "parking management strategies" to ensure ...

Washington's Mount Rainier National Park will not implement timed entry reservations for any part of the park for the 2026 season, the National Park Service (NPS) has said. The park will instead rely ...

The deaths of two experienced climbers on Mount Rainier this month have once again drawn attention to a hard truth about Washington’s most iconic peak and the West Coast’s tallest volcano: Even for ...

Jiri Richter and Ben Watson were drawn to the mountains – and they always wanted to help others reach the summit. Richter, 51, gave fellow climbers a pat on the shoulder and patiently told them to ...

2026 has already been a dramatic year for America's national parks. From "sticker bans" on America the Beautiful passes to sign changes and removals at historical sites, changes have become the norm ...

Park rangers "initiated an inquiry" on Jan. 18, after identifying overdue climbing permits Ingrid Vasquez is a Digital News Writer at PEOPLE. She graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with ...

January 23 Update, 4:00 P.M. MDT: Officials have identified one of the climbers as 51-year-old Jiri Richter. Search and rescue personnel have recovered the bodies of two climbers on Mount Rainier.

A snowshoer pauses on the way up Panorama Point to look back at the Tattoosh mountain range in Mount Rainier National Park. Jon Abbott The search for two missing climbers ended in tragedy Tuesday ...

Two people died while climbing at Mount Rainier National Park, according to the National Park Service. Search-and-rescue crews recovered the bodies of the climbers from the Wilson Glacier area of ...

Two climbers were found dead in the Wilson Glacier area of Mount Rainier after going missing late last week. Rangers were searching for them since Saturday, The Seattle Times reported. The search for ...