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Getting one of the roughly 11,500 permits granted each year to backpack overnight in the Grand Canyon has become so competitive and "unfair" that managers at the national park have decided to change the system.
Environmental groups are suing the federal Bureau of Land Management over its decision to allow a uranium mine to reopen north of the Grand Canyon.
Parts of a remote central Utah canyon decorated with ancient Indian art are being nominated for the National Register of Historic Places.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer objects to a ban on filing new mining claims on nearly 1 million acres of federal land in northern Arizona for two years while a permanent prohibition is under study.
Environmental groups have given notice that they'll sue the federal Bureau of Land Management over its decision to allow a uranium mine to reopen near the Grand Canyon.
The First Family's visit to the Grand Canyon is likely to cause some delays and closures for tourists Sunday.
Two federal agencies want to quiet things down at the Grand Canyon.
An appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge by environmentalists to federal rules allowing the use of motorized rafts at the Grand Canyon.
Uranium mining near the Grand Canyon would court disaster, risking damage to critical water supplies, local officials and water experts told a House panel Tuesday.
Thousands of mining claims dot 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says his department has a responsibility to ensure those resources are developed in a way that protects communities, treasured landscapes and watersheds.
The Interior Department announced Monday it is temporarily barring the filing of new mining claims, including for uranium, on nearly 1 million acres near the Grand Canyon.
An American Indian tribe that lives in a gorge off the Grand Canyon plans to reopen the flood-damaged area to tourists on May 1.
Looking over the South Rim of the Grand Canyon, Don Stover points out the blues, greens and other pastel colors in the landscape, and then his mind starts racing.
A daredevil wearing a jet pack has flown across a 1,500-foot-wide canyon in southern Colorado. The sponsoring Go Fast Sports & Beverage says Eric Scott took 21 seconds to cross the Royal Gorge at 75 mph on Monday. It says he didn't use a parachute while flying across the 1,100-foot-deep canyon.
The Havasupai Tribe, hit by flooding that shut down the lifeline of the community, is eager to have visitors return to the reservation deep in a gorge off the Grand Canyon.
In a Sept. 11 story about the Navajo Nation seeking full control of Canyon de Chelly National Monument, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Canyon de Chelly is the only national monument entirely on tribal land. According to the National Park Service, nine national monuments are within Indian reservation boundaries.
The Navajo Nation is seeking full control of one of the only national monuments entirely on reservation land, the majestic Canyon de Chelly and its hundreds of ancient rock carvings and paintings.
Newly built-up sandbars crucial to wildlife in the Grand Canyon have rapidly eroded in the last four months, some shrinking back to the size they were before a costly manmade flood.
It may be four weeks until tourists can return to stare as towering waterfalls cascade into blue-green pools near an American Indian village in a canyon miles west of Grand Canyon National Park headquarters.
Eighty Havasupai tribal members returned home Wednesday to a remote village near the Grand Canyon for the first time since a devastating flash flood earlier this week.
A man convicted of killing a Japanese tourist in the Grand Canyon was sentenced Thursday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Last month, Marine Staff Sgt. Travis N. "T-Bo" Twiggs went to the White House with a group of Iraq war veterans called the Wounded Warriors Regiment and met the president.
The Grand Canyon boasts new sandbars ranging in size from small nooks and crannies to ones as large as football fields, the results of a manmade flood designed to nourish the ecosystem of the Colorado River, an official said.
Gazing into the majestic Grand Canyon, awe-struck visitors inevitably ask: "How old is it?" Far older than generally thought, says new evidence that scientists culled from caves lining the canyon's red limestone cliffs.
Tour Helicopter En Route to Grand Canyon Makes Emergency Landing After Bird StrikeA bird struck a helicopter tour from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon, forcing an emergency landing! No one was injured and the passengers were safely transported back to Las Vegas.
Ancient Egyptian Civilization found in Grand Canyon?Evidently, some potential evidence has surfaced regarding an ancient civilization in the Grand Canyon.
Man killed when car plunges into Grand CanyonA man died after his car plunged 600 feet off the edge of the Grand Canyon's South Rim, authorities said Tuesday. The Arizona park's regional communications center received several reports of a car driving off the edge about 6 a.m. Monday, according to a written statement.
Motorist drives over Grand Canyon edgeAuthorities are investigating the death of a man who drove over the edge of the Grand Canyon.
Cyclists slow down to avoid crater-sized 'hole' - Pretty neat, huh?But the hole is an optical illusion, a three-dimensional drawing of a canyon, in an attempt to make careless cyclists hit the brakes rather than ride dangerously and ignore pedestrians.
Coyote Comes -- Big eared scrub runners winking and rubbing sage brush. Ever hunters. Their own enemies few. Like senior legislators waiting for the righteous dreamers to tire, they crouch and scratch, sniff and whine.
Feds halt plan to drill in scenic Utah canyonsThe U.S. Bureau of Land Management has announced it is pulling auction parcels from an expanded oil-and-gas leasing program in Utah, including tracts inside Nine Mile Canyon and Desolation Canyon.
Justice asked to weigh charges in 9 mine deathsFederal mining officials on Wednesday asked prosecutors to decide whether criminal charges are warranted in the deaths of nine people in last year's collapse of the Crandall Canyon mine in Utah.
Setting: Mid-May, the Colorado River through Westwater Canyon
The Deepest Canyon on Mars in Stunning High-Definition: New Images from the HRSCThis breathtaking 3D landscape was constructed with high definition images taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter.
Easy Hikes Near Pasadena - Associated Content - Associated ContentThe canyons of the San Gabriel Mountains are very close to Pasadena. This article describes three easy hikes.
CNN.com - Skywalk to offer thrilling Grand Canyon view - May 11, 2006The Grand Canyon Meets the 21st Century
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