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D.C.’s iconic Yoshino cherry blossoms have reached stage five as they head toward peak bloom, the National Park Service (NPS) announced Thursday.

The cherry blossoms along the Tidal Basin are rapidly blooming. News4’s Juliana Valencia spoke to Mike Litterst from the NPS. 

D.C.’s iconic Yoshino cherry blossoms have reached stage four as they head toward peak bloom, the National Park Service (NPS) announced Thursday.

D.C.’s iconic Yoshino cherry blossoms have reached stage two as they head towards peak bloom, the National Park Service (NPS) announced Sunday. Stage two means that florets, or tiny flowers that start to form within the green buds, are visible on the trees. In recent years, the trees have reached stage two earlier in March, according to NPS data....

D.C.’s iconic Yoshino cherry blossoms have reached stage two as they head towards peak bloom, the National Park Service (NPS) announced Sunday. Stage two means that florets, or tiny flowers that start to form within the green buds, are visible on the trees. In recent years, the trees have reached stage two earlier in March, according to NPS data....

The prediction for the 2025 Cherry Blossom’s peak bloom has been revealed. The National Park Service says they expect a pink tidal basin from March 28 to March 30th. News4’s Tommy McFly explains what it means, when the festival starts and what you have to do to catch the pinkies at peak bloom. 

Stumpy, DC’s favorite little cherry tree, got a posthumous shoutout from the National Park Service during the 2025 peak bloom prediction press conference. 

Laid-off employees who hung a U.S. flag upside-down at Yosemite National Park in a sign of “distress” said the action was a call to protect the nation’s public lands from privatization and to reinstate the thousands of federal workers who were recently fired.

A Louisiana landscape where centuries-old sugar cane plantations and Afro-Creole culture remain preserved along the Mississippi River will no longer be eligible for consideration for federal recognition following a request from state officials.

An American flag was hung upside down on El Capitan at Yosemite National Park on Saturday following the firing of about 1,000 National Park Service employees.

Crews have stopped cutting down trees along the George Washington Parkway in Northern Virginia after residents expressed anger and frustration.

Residents say many of the trees that were cut shouldn’t have been taken down. News4’s Adam Tuss explains the controversy.

A New Hampshire woman suffered burns on her leg after hiking off trail in Yellowstone National Park and falling into scalding water in a thermal area near the Old Faithful geyser, park officials said.

Rangers at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in southern New Mexico describe it as a “world-changing” event for the tiny microbes and insects that call this specialized subterranean environment home.

A single pipeline at the Grand Canyon delivers water to millions of visitors annually at the South Rim. Some visitors were surprised recently when they were shut out of hotels over the Labor Day holiday. The move was unprecedented. The leaks are a known problem. The pipeline that twists and turns through the inner canyon has broken dozens of times...

The official nonprofit organization of the National Park Service is set to receive a $100 million gift, marking the largest grant in its history.

Authorities say the body of a 20-year-old New Mexico woman has been recovered in Grand Canyon National Park.

Five people were able to escape a hot, acidic pond in Yellowstone National Park after the sport utility vehicle they were riding in went off the road and into an inactive geyser.

The man was killed by National Park rangers on the Fourth of July as he fired a semiautomatic rifle at a dining facility with about 200 people inside.

The National Park Service said temperatures on exposed parts of the trail can reach over 120 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade.