Cases of chopped-down Joshua trees, which can be more than a century old, were reported at Joshua Tree National Park. At Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, human waste and trash issues reached ...

A dispatcher could hear gunshots ring out as panicked hikers called 911 over what deputies feared was an active-shooter ...

As I rolled up to the ranger kiosk at Tuolumne Meadows Campground in Yosemite National Park, I was greeted by the man who ...

Aspen groves and colorful oak trees give the park “a calmer, less crowded beauty this time of year,” Quartz said.

No picture or video can do Yosemite justice, better than the picture you see when you view Yosemite Valley with your own eyes ...

A new method for quantifying grandeur is reshuffling the pecking order of the planet’s most impressive peaks. Turns out ...

Google Maps suffered an outage that left the mobile version of the service unable to fully load its map or provide directions. Over 4,000 reports were filed on Downdetector since the outage started, ...

Update (9/12/25): Google Maps is back online. It's not just you: Google Maps is down. According to 9to5Google, the outage started sometime around 1 p.m. PT (4 p.m. PT), and seems to be isolated to the ...

When Taiwanese traveler Eric Weng goes to South Korea, he resigns himself to toggling between three different map applications to navigate his way around. That’s because Google Maps, ubiquitous in ...

A Google Maps team was recently attacked by villagers while surveying Birhar village at night because the villagers mistook them for thieves. A Google Maps team was recently attacked by villagers ...

Google wants to improve real-time monitoring on Android 16 by adding Live Updates to Google Maps. The feature, initially introduced in the latest Android ecosystem, enables users to keep track of food ...

Google Maps developers are working on a bunch of small tweaks to the app’s interface. Some of those include a new setting menu, icons, and search UI. Place cards could also be getting a reorganization ...