Where to Find News, Hearings and Appeals, and Webcams on doi.gov

The three resources are all reachable from the U.S. Department of the Interior homepage (doi.gov): Recent News carries press releases and announcements, Hearings and Appeals Case Inventories lets you search pending cases and issued decisions, and the Webcams page links to wildlife cameras. All three are public pages — no account is mentioned in the site materials, so treat login requirements as unconfirmed rather than assuming open access to every case document.

Recent News: press releases and announcements

The homepage opens with a Recent News section that lists dated items in reverse chronological order. Each entry is a headline plus a date, and the section ends with a Read more news link to the full news listing.

What you can expect to find there, based on the current homepage:

• Secretary's Orders and policy actions — for example, the item on Secretary Burgum signing an order to expand grazing opportunities, improve federal rangeland health, and support ranchers, dated 10/24/2026.
• Agency announcements — such as the Department and the National Park Service welcoming Desert Shield and Desert Storm veterans (10/21/2026).
• Scientific assessments — such as the USGS release on undiscovered natural gas resources in Alaska's North Slope (10/21/2026).
• Park and monument news — such as Chiricahua National Monument becoming America's newest national park (10/21/2026).

How to use it: scan the dated headlines on the homepage for recent items; if you need older material or a specific topic, follow Read more news to the full listing rather than scrolling the homepage.

Hearings and Appeals Case Inventories

The homepage includes a Hearings and Appeals Case Inventories block described as a search for pending cases and issued decisions and dispositive orders. A Search Inventories link opens the search.

Use this when you need to:

• Check whether a specific appeal or hearing is still pending.
• Find an issued decision or dispositive order already on the record.

What to have ready: the case name, docket or case number, or the deciding office — the page is framed as a search tool, so a specific identifier will narrow results faster than browsing. The site materials do not describe the exact search fields or filters, so start from the identifiers you already hold and refine from the results.

Webcams: wildlife viewing

The Webcams section on the homepage points to wildlife cameras, with a Find Webcams link to the camera listing. The site's own framing is worth keeping in mind: you never know what you'll see — "it could be something amazing or nothing at all — which is part of the fun." In practice, that means a live feed may show an empty view; it is a live camera, not an on-demand clip.

Quick reference

Other homepage resources worth knowing

The same homepage links to two further items that answer common questions about the Department:

• Our Mission — the Department protects and manages the Nation's natural resources and cultural heritage, provides scientific information about them, and honors trust responsibilities and special commitments to American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and affiliated Island Communities. A Read More link expands this.
• Hearings and Appeals and the policy pages (for example, material on American energy dominance and the Make America Beautiful Again midterm report) sit alongside the news and case tools, so the homepage works as a single starting point for both current announcements and case lookups.

If your goal is simply to confirm what the Department is and which agencies it oversees, start with Our Mission; if your goal is a specific document or case, go directly to Recent News or Search Inventories.