Maintenance Needs for Trails, Visitors Centers Grows from Last Year – Congress Needs to Boost Park Funding WASHINGTON – The following is a statement by Theresa Pierno, President and CEO of the ...

After dodging a blow that would have come with a government shutdown, the National Park Service is focused on a bigger challenge in Congress as it struggles to catch up with a maintenance backlog of ...

American diplomacy has a $3 billion problem. According to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), deferred maintenance is plaguing the State Department’s overseas real ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Across California’s public university systems, students, faculty and staff are learning and working in aging academic ...

Legislation geared at helping national parks like the Great Smoky Mountains National Park fund their expansive maintenance backlogs should soon reach the Senate floor and be a step closer to reality.

Across the United States, a quiet backlog of home repairs is building up behind closed doors, from leaky roofs to aging ...

— Taylor Griggs contributed to this story. If you use Portland’s streets, you know there’s room for improvement. From crumbling and cracked pavement on greenways, to debris-strewn bike lanes and ...

PG&E heads into fire season this year facing a backlog of 170,000 outstanding maintenance jobs in the high fire risk parts of its system, according to a report by the independent safety monitor. That ...

Despite a multi-million-dollar rebuild of its elevator system last year, Carlsbad Caverns National Park continued to lead New Mexico as the park with the largest maintenance backlog in the state.