On many days in Kentucky when the air is still, whiffs of dirty air, drifting from distant pollution sources, can be seen high in the sky. As I drive to my cabin in Green County, I can see haze from ...

Merchandise sits on display in the gift shops at the Lodge at Mammoth Cave on Friday, Jan. 12, 2024, after the lobby, gift shops and Lantern café portions of the two-year renovation project opened in ...

Archeologists on a mission to see where a mysterious passageway under the world's longest known cave system goes are uncovering 19th and 20th-century artifacts in the historical dig. This collapsed ...

Scientists at European climate monitoring authority Copernicus Climate Change Service have officially confirmed the story you’ve heard: July 2023 was the world’s hottest month on record. Going ...

MAMMOTH CAVE, Ky. (WXIX) - The longest cave in the world just got longer. According to the team at Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park, the cave is now six miles longer making it a total of 426 ...

As the government shutdown appeared imminent at the end of the September, businesses and tourism agencies that surround Mammoth Cave braced for impact. Similar to the last prolonged shutdown in 2018, ...

The National Park Service has seen around 1,000 jobs cut, including some at Mammoth Cave National Park, in recent weeks as the Trump administration continues its efforts to downsize federal government ...

An explorer of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky who died 100 years ago is credited with the creation of the national park. A national park in Kentucky has the longest known cave system in the world ...