James Bartels was sentenced to 18 months in prison for sparking 26 fires in Wayne National Forest, prosecutors announced on Monday.

Following devastating Southern California blazes in January 2025, a post on X claimed US acreage lost to wildfires is ...

This tragic loss will certainly make the housing crisis more acute in multiple ways,” said Ryan Finnigan, an associate ...

Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...

Los Angeles County keeps building in hillsides and canyons even as the fire risk worsens. For a century, the lure of ...

The Tunnel fire broke out in a wooded canyon just minutes away from UC Berkeley, where David Sapsis was working on his Ph.D.

The Inland Empire and Orange County had received less than a half-inch of rain through mid-January, and that total was ...

After fierce winds whipped fire out of brush-covered hills on Jan. 7, entire Los Angeles neighborhoods burned down. Within a few days, over 12,000 homes and businesses had been destroyed ...

Lithium–ion batteries have been making headlines since the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires broke out a month ago. From concerns about evacuating in an electric vehicle, to the challenges of ...

Merced Fire Captain Bryan Akers, 45, has been with the Merced City Fire Department for 22 years. But it was during his deployment on Jan. 8 to assist with the firefighting efforts at the Hurst Fire ...

Small businesses, nonprofits, and workers directly affected by the recently quelled Eaton and Palisades fires can now apply ...