Continents would scurry across the globe, oceans would open and close, and new mountains would shoot up toward the sky. Yet even as mountains rise, they also periodically sink back down when the ...

CAL FIRE CZU says that multiple resources are responding to a vegetation fire in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Currently, the Hermon Fire is holding at 2.3 acres and is fully contained. The fire is ...

Citing a “national energy emergency,” the federal government gave a green light Friday to a long-delayed expansion of Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains coal mine near Billings. The ...

There’s no turning back now. San Diego State and four other Mountain West universities officially submitted notifications of departure, multiple sources within the conference confirmed.

SILVERTHORNE, Colo. — A semi-truck driver has been cited for a crash on Interstate 70 Wednesday afternoon that injured five people and resulted in an hourslong closure of the highway at the ...

The body of a New York man who went missing on a hike with his daughter on a Maine mountain over the weekend has been found, officials announced Tuesday. Tim Keiderling, 58, of Ulster Park ...

So woven into the fabric of this gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains, Parton, who becomes an age-defying octogenarian in January, even has an animatronic chicken named after her at the most fowl ...

According to the National Park Service, Mount Katahdin, which means “Greatest Mountain,” is the highest in the state, peaking at 5,269 feet. Baxter State Park describes the hiking trails there ...

Two hikers, a father and his daughter, have been found dead after attempting to hike to the summit of Maine's highest mountain, officials said Wednesday. Tim Keiderling, 58, and Esther Keiderling ...

A father-daughter hike up Maine's tallest mountain ended in tragedy when the father was found dead on Tuesday. Tim Keiderling, 58, and Esther Keiderling, 28, of Ulster Park, New York, set off ...

On May 25, around 10 p.m., in Buckeye — about 30 miles west of Phoenix, Arizona — the man was walking his dog in a residential area called Verrado when a mountain lion approached the pair and ...

A smoke report was made and subsequently confirmed on the west side of the Huachuca Mountains within the Miller Peak Wilderness near Scotia Canyon. The U.S. Forest Service says the Parker Fire is ...