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Some sad fall Yellowstone news: after two brothers were reported missing after a planned four-night backcountry trip to Shoshone Lake, one body was recovered yesterday and the search continues for the other.

Authorities say they’ve recovered a body “consistent with the description of” the missing Gabby Petito at Bridger-Teton National Forest, adjacent to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, in Wyoming.

A 19-year-old concessions employee suffered second- and third-degree burns to 5 percent of her body during an early-morning incident Thursday.

With plenty of open questions about the whereabouts of Gabby Petito as she and her boyfriend planned a trip to Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park, authorities are asked for the public’s help.

The numbers are in: August 2021 Yellowstone visitation is another record month, as almost a million people visit America’s first national park.

Everyone was expecting a huge Yellowstone Labor Day weekend, and sure enough it happened, with the number of vehicles entering the park some 21 percent over 2019.

With both Yellowstone and Grand Teton visitation records in the books for July 2021, you can expect more calls for limitations on access to popular areas within the two national parks.

Low water levels have forced early Jackson Lake marina closures, as drought conditions throughout the west impact Grand Teton National Park.

Your latest entry on the Yellowstone National Park crime blotter: a Connecticut woman was sentenced to seven days in jail and $2,040 for walking on Norris Geyser Basin thermal ground.

A Grand Teton and Yellowstone mask mandate returns, as rising COVID-19 rates causes the National Park Service to require masks in crowded outdoor spaces and all indoor spaces.