WASHINGTON (AP) — Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands ...

Transmission lines have been linked to the start of the Eaton fire in January. But another kind of line — distribution lines ...

Three new wildfires have been confirmed in the Northeast Region over the last few days. Two blazes were identified Monday ...

Spending time in a burn zone can come with exposure to certain toxins — sometimes including lead, arsenic, mercury and ...

The quiet Sunday afternoon of California’s Tri-Valley was jolted by the thunderous boom of ceremonial cannon fire September ...

For starters, conservative concern centered primarily on the spread of communism during the McCarthy era. Today, debates often involve conservative critiques of how topics such as gender identity, ...

The tone has bordered on smug among executives of the Southern California Edison Co. ever since the Eaton Fire last January destroyed most of Altadena and some of neighboring Pasadena, consuming a ...

The devastation left in the wake of January’s Eaton and Palisades fires was unimaginable. The firestorms engulfed 59 square ...

The aftermath of the intense Sept. 26 monsoon storm resulted in deaths and led Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Globe to declare ...

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August 17, 2025 — It's a race against the clock between California and Texas, with governors of both states striving to draw new Congressional district maps promptly, instead of waiting for the next ...

Tom Campbell is a professor of law and a professor of economics at Chapman University. He was elected five times to the US ...