Tourist Jeremy Tran almost missed one of the last boat rides on Crater Lake before the marina closes until 2029. On Tuesday, ...

The 11th annual Ride the Rim event will return to Crater Lake National Park on Sept. 13. East Rim Drive will only be open to ...

As noted by another commenter, a previous incident in 2018 with an off-roader in the Pumice Desert resulted in a hefty fine ...

Crater Lake National Park will host two “Ride the Rim” events this month, an opportunity for the public to bike, hike or run ...

If you’re reading this, you probably know the value of the Mercury’s news reporting, arts and culture coverage, event ...

Mark Kimsey, the Director of the Intermountain Forestry Cooperative, discusses volcanism, volcanic ash, and their roles in forest ecology ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Deep in the pristine waters of Crater Lake lives a species found nowhere else on Earth: the Mazama newt. Once a dominant predator in the lake’s cold ecosystem, this brightly colored ...

Lakes throughout the Pacific Northwest take a long time to warm in the summer, and some of them, like the nearby 2,000-foot-deep Crater Lake, don’t warm up at all. I was cold already. Upon making ...

CRATER LAKE, Ore -- The Mazama newt, a small amphibian found only at Crater Lake National Park, is facing a sharp decline in population due to the growing threat of crayfish. Julia Low, conservation ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Mazama newt used to be head honcho at Crater Lake. Found only in the lake's cold waters, this brightly-colored semiaquatic species used to be one of the top predators in its ...

In a bid to prevent the extinction of the Mazama newt, the Oregon Zoo will bring 19 of these rare amphibians to the zoo's ...