The Department of the Interior told USA TODAY it was aware of the "unauthorized and inappropriate" display, which was eventually taken down.

A group of climbers, some who used to work for the Park Service, intended to raise awareness about how recent federal job ...

Demonstrators unfurled the flag against El Capitan to protest the Trump administration's cuts to the National Park Service.

A "distress" signal hung on one of Yosemite National Park's most iconic sites ... a sign of "dire distress," the United States Flag Code states. The symbol of protest was done by park staffers ...

This is being done on purpose, and for a good reason: That very same Flag Code demands it. According to the National Air and Space Museum, American flags depicted on aircraft and spacecraft must ...

Tourists visiting Yosemite National Park's El Capitan have noticed an upside-down American flag hanging off the impressive mountain. Here's what it means.

The Trump administration last week fired about 1,000 newly hired National Park Service employees ... according to The American Legion's Flag Code. Get Los Angeles's latest local news on crime ...

However over the last 50 years or so, flying the flag upside down has become a sign of protest. In the first well-documented instance, the US Supreme Court ruled in 1974 that a student had the right ...

As visitors descended on Yosemite National Park to witness its iconic “Firefall” event, an upside-down American flag was hung on a park summit to protest the ongoing federal job cuts carried out by ...

Newsweek has contacted the National Park Service for comment via ... including several who worked at Yosemite. The U.S. Flag Code states that the American flag should never be upside down "except ...