State and federal officials hope to be able to reopen beaches up and down the Delmarva peninsula to swimming by this weekend, ...

Rangers and other hikers helped the man walk more than a mile in a mountainous area so that he could be taken to a hospital, ...

The famed trail is closed from Granite Park Chalet on the north to Haystack Butte on the south — a 4.9-mile stretch that also provides access to Grinnell Glacier Overlook.

Roughly 30 volunteers, park rangers and members of the Virginia Department of Health swept the beaches on Assateague Island ...

Beaches in a number of East Coast states were closed off to the public after medical waste including needles washed ashore.