Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A home goes up in flames as a firefighter battles the Edgehill fire in San Bernardino recently. (Gina Ferazzi/Los Angeles Times) A ...

The federal government has denied Washington a hazard mitigation grant that the state requested as part of its response to ...

California’s wildfire season is now nearly a year-round danger, as was seen by the devastating, fast-moving fires that swept through the Los Angeles area in January. Fueled by the effects of climate ...

Oregon fire experts have finalized their redo of state maps of wildfire hazard areas, showing that about 106,000 tax lots are in high-risk spots that could be subject to new building and landscape ...

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) - Cal Fire released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the state's counties today, using various criteria to identify wildfire hazard areas and ranking them on a ...

The Coastal Resources Commission is in the rulemaking process to update boundaries and maps for high-hazard inlet and ...

Cal Fire has released a long-awaited set of updated maps outlining the fire hazard severity zones in Marin County and elsewhere in the Bay Area. Marin fire officials say the maps, while mostly showing ...

A dozen East Bay cities in Contra Costa County have areas that fall into the "very high fire hazard severity" category, according to new maps released this week by the Office of the State Fire Marshal ...

Powerful falls in a concrete hydroelectric dam. Record rainfall pelted parts of Iowa for 12 hours straight in July 2010, sending 10 inches of rainwater draining toward Lake Delhi, Iowa, a popular ...

(Beyond Pesticides, February 10, 2025) With the shutting down of key federal government programs, Beyond Pesticides is urging the public to speak out, especially on issues that preserve state and ...