WASHINGTON — D.C. Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton is criticizing the National Park Service’s extended closure of the Washington Monument. The congresswoman told WTOP she is “crestfallen” over the closure ...

WASHINGTON – The Washington Monument has been shut down indefinitely as officials continue to struggle with the elevator problems that have dogged the structure for years. “We have not been able to ...

The Washington Monument opened to the public with an elevator. Construction on the massive obelisk began 40 years earlier, in 1848, with private funding, but after a few years, the group building it ...

The 5.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Washington, D.C. on August 23 caused damage to the Washington Monument. Evan Vucci / AP Images As a mountaineering ranger at Denali National Park, Brandon ...