An FVR90 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) lifts off from the Monterey Bay Academy Airport near Watsonville, California, during ...

Large wildfires in the desert were once rare. Now experts worry that invasive plants and a changing fire cycle are putting ...

CalMatters reports on the alarming issue of home development in highly flammable areas in the state of California.

The impulse to restore all that the fires have stripped away may be a basic ... fire-prone areas as yet another reflection of California's affordability crisis. "People are looking to the ...

Ballots for the city of Aspen’s election drop on Feb. 10, and Aspen has two critical questions to decide. Both questions ...

BNSF Railway has maintained a unique avalanche program to keep its main line to the Pacific Northwest open. It only took a few months for the Great Northern Railway ...

When a fire burns in an urban area, it unleashes a slurry of chemicals. Scientists are trying to understand the chemistry at ...

When the Middleton, MA, Fire Department (MFD ... by active firefighters who run calls in everything from high-rise to wildland urban interface, to confined spaces and high angles, we understand ...

The destruction of some of the state’s most expensive mansions in communities like Pacific Palisades received much of the attention, but the fires also displaced people in predominantly middle- and ...

It’s getting tougher for Californians to get and keep fire insurance, writes Lookout politics columnist Mike Rotkin, and it’s not just people living in fire-prone, forested areas like Bonny Doon and ...

Chaparral, Calif.’s fire-adapted ecosystem, often goes overlooked. That is, except for when the high severity firestorms blaze through human communities. Chaparral was quickly lambasted during ...

The Custer County Fire Department submitted the 2024 annual report earlier this month, showing increased incident volume nearly across the board.