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Created by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake in 1959, Yellowstone's Red Spouter is a thermal with many personalities. Depending on the season, it can be a hot spring, a boiling mudpot or it can just spew hot gas. Many of Yellowstone National Park’s thermal features are defined by their personalities. The regularity of Old Faithful, the colossal noise and steam clouds of Steamboat Geyser or the colorful palette of the Artists’ Paintpots. By that logic, the Red Spouter might be Yellowstone's most ambitious. Instead of building a reputation around a single personality, it tries to — and succeeds at — being many...

Law enforcement authorities are investigating a human foot that was found floating in a hot spring in the southern part of the park, Yellowstone National Park officials announced on Thursday. The discovery of the foot and a shoe by a Yellowstone employee on Tuesday led to the temporary closure of the Abyss Pool near the West Thumb Geyser Basin, according to Morgan Warthin, public affairs officer for Yellowstone National Park. Warthin did not release any further information on the investigation; however, a Montana resident was in the area and told Cowboy State Daily that she was not allowed into the...

Park spokeswoman Morgan Warthin said Cade Edmond Siemers told rangers he was walking near the famous geyser late Sunday night without a flashlight when he tripped into a hot spring. Siemers was taken by ambulance to West Yellowstone and airlifted to a burn center in Idaho Falls. He could not be reached for comment. Park spokeswoman Morgan Warthin said Cade Edmond Siemers told rangers he was walking near the famous geyser late Sunday night without a flashlight when he tripped into a hot spring. Siemers was taken by ambulance to West Yellowstone and airlifted to a burn center in Idaho...

Ear Spring went from being dormant on Saturday to spewing steam and water between 20 and 30 feet high, a height not recorded since 1957, said park spokesman Neal Herbert. On Saturday tourists and surveillance cameras captured the rare eruption around 4:50 p.m. Ear Spring contains permanently seething water at or above boiling point. The ear-shaped pool has been known to erupt to a height of around 2 feet, but officials say that only happens one or two times each decade. Geyser Hill lies across the Firehole River from Old Faithful and features dozens of hot springs, geysers and fumaroles...

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) -- A lightning strike in Yellowstone National Park injured nine people waiting to see Old Faithful geyser erupt. One man hit by the bolt on Tuesday was hospitalized.

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Two seasonal Yellowstone National Park concession workers have been fired after a live webcam caught them urinating into the Old Faithful geyser. Park spokesman Al Nash says a 23-year-old man was fined $750 and placed on three years of unsupervised probation for urinating, being off-trail in a restricted area and taking items from the area. The man also was banned from Yellowstone for two years. The second employee’s case is pending. The park’s dispatch centre was called after someone watching a webcam on the geyser saw six employees leaving the trail and walking on Old Faithful on...

they swivelled the Old Faithful Webcam to show buffaloes foraging

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. - Yellowstone National Park has launched a live, streaming webcam focused on the Old Faithful area. The real-time webcam provides full motion video of Old Faithful Geyser, as well as other geysers located on Geyser Hill. A five-minute audio message plays with the live video stream, providing information about various hydrothermal features in the park. Viewers may also observe wildlife and park visitors as they wander into the range of the webcam. Park officials caution that the streaming webcam is still experimental, especially in the harsh environment of a typical Yellowstone winter, and may not work...

Water Main Break Snarls Traffic No Major Flooding Reported BOSTON -- A water main break in Boston's South End created traffic headaches Monday. NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that a city contractor accidentally hit a major water main at 9 a.m. Monday. Officials asked drivers to avoid the South Boston area of Washington Street from the Boston Herald Building to Massachusetts Avenue. "It is like Niagara Falls out here," said one witness. "They was sitting there drilling and all of a sudden you heard a boom -- and water was just like Niagara Falls." The city hired contractor New Hampshire...

Old Faithful Inn still inspires awe on 100th birthday 'Old house' awaits extensive face-lift By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press Writer YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — It has survived fire, earthquake, and visits by thousands of tourists. But a century after the Old Faithful Inn first opened, this Yellowstone landmark remains as much of an awe-inducing spectacle as the namesake geyser that erupts reliably just outside its windows. First-time visitors often twirl, open-mouthed, as they take in the lobby. The ceiling soars 76.5 feet high — the height of a seven-story building — with stairs leading to near the top....

(CBS) For years, CBS News Correspondent Sandra Hughes reports, scientists have tried to understand the dynamic nature of Yellowstone National Park. "It's beautiful up here, everybody should see this at one time or another," says one appreciative observer. Scientist Lisa Morgan may have unlocked one piece in the puzzle, deep below the park's biggest lake. "It is kind of the last unmapped frontier in Yellowstone National Park," says Morgan. What she found looks more like the surface of the moon. Using sonar she's identified a massive bulging dome the size of seven football fields. The only other underwater dome in...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) -- Procter & Gamble Co. agreed to air a disclaimer in a Metamucil commercial featuring Old Faithful to mollify the National Park Service. Created last year, the commercial features a Yellowstone National Park ranger pouring a glass of Metamucil into the geyser to help it stay regular. The commercial sparked criticism from the Park Service, which said the park's geothermal features can be damaged by dumping things into them, and venturing near geysers and hot springs can be dangerous. Although Procter & Gamble said most TV viewers would realize the commercial was a joke, it agreed to...

Inopportune publicity for laxative 25/01 03:04 The persons in charge for the famous national park of Yellowstone (Wyoming, west) foam since televisions repeat a commercial showing a guard of the park discreetly pouring a laxative in the famous geyser "Old Faithful" to regularize its eruptions. They reproach the originators of this "pub", realized on behalf of the giant group Procter and Gamble, to endanger years of efforts to discourage from the tourists throwing the most various objects in the many geysers of this national park, oldest and one of most splendid of the United States. "Old Faithfull" (the faithful...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A Wyoming federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a Utah teenager who was severely burned when he and two others jumped into a thermal pool in Yellowstone National Park. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Roberts had asked the U.S. District Court in Cheyenne to reject Lance Buchi's (pictured, above) complaint, which alleges that the federal government failed to adequately warn of dangers posed by thermal pools in the park. Roberts had argued that the decision to provide no warning signs in the area of Cavern Springs -- where water temperatures can reach 170...