Visitation to National Park Service sites has seen a boom in recent years. For five years in a row, the park service has tallied over 300 million visitors per year. It’s an unprecedented spike, and the reason why this is happening now goes deeper than social media alone. While the threat of COVID-19 will likely change those numbers this year, the park service is still figuring out how to regain the balance between preservation and visitation. Cheddar explains the history of crowding in America’s national parks, and the impacts we are seeing from that today.
Fans have pushed the Fisher-Price Corn Popper into the National Toy Hall of Fame, elevating it from perpetual finalist to 2023 inductee, alongside baseball cards, Cabbage Patch Kids and NERF foam toys, the Hall of Fame announced Friday.
During an interview with an elephant keeper in South Africa, the keeper was talking about the baby elephant he looks after whose name is Chavo, who immediately runs over to the keeper once he hears his name and starts playing with him.
Trained service dogs can help military veterans deal with mental health struggles. Cole Lyle, a veteran and founder of Kaya's K9s, joined Cheddar News to explain why service dogs are important for veterans and how he is helping to give veterans the resources for service dogs.
A jury awarded more than $1.2 million to Robert De Niro’s former personal assistant Thursday, finding one of his companies responsible for subjecting her to a toxic work environment.
