The weather is cooling down here in Louisiana, which means outdoor events are heating up across our state. Out on the Cajun Prairie, Le Grand Hoorah, a festival dedicated to the music, food, and ...

MURFREESBORO, Ark. (KATV) — A couple from Indiana recently unearthed a 2.71-carat diamond at Arkansas's Crater of Diamonds State Park. On October 2, Dewy White and his wife of Paoli, Indiana, embarked ...

Randy Simons has a vision for the proposed High Falls State Park in Rochester and it's vivid. When the commissioner pro-tem of the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation looks ...

GOBLIN VALLEY STATE PARK, Utah (KUTV) — Search crews were dispatched to Goblin Valley State Park after multiple people were trapped and missing due to sudden flash flooding in Little Wildhorse Canyon.

DENVER (KDVR) — State park rangers announced Friday night that they are closing Cherry Creek State Park overnight after a rise in law enforcement concerns and vandalism. The park will no longer be ...

CUSTER, S.D. (KELO) — South Dakota’s 60th Buffalo Roundup is quickly approaching. It kicks off Friday morning, so crews at Custer State Park are hard at work, making sure the park is ready for a surge ...

BACK TO YOU. A STATE FAIR STAPLE WON’T BE BACK THIS YEAR. SCULLY SAYS IT WILL NOT BE OPENING THE PUMPKIN STORE AT STATE FAIR PARK. THE GIANT INFLATABLE USUALLY GOES UP AFTER LABOR DAY. NOW, SCULLY DID ...

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“I honestly thought it was too big to be a diamond!” Rayne Madison said of her discovery at an Arkansas state park Arkansas State Parks Raynae Madison and her family, of Cookson, Okla., visited Crater ...

A view of Mount Mitchell from the Blue Ridge Parkway. At 6,684 feet above sea level, Mount Mitchell is the highest point in the eastern United States. NEWS & OBSERVER FILE PHOTO As the fall ...

As the fall leaf-peeping season approaches, the Blue Ridge Parkway reopened Monday between Asheville and Mount Mitchell State Park, allowing the park to open for the first time since the remnants of ...