wildfire

Commentary As monstrous blazes overwhelm Australia’s south-east, the need for a national bushfire policy has never been more urgent. Active land management such as hazard-reduction burning and forest thinning must ...

California's bankrupt power producer PG&E Corp. said on Dec. 6 it had reached a $13.5 billion settlement with ...

California's bankrupt power producer PG&E Corp said on Friday it had reached a $13.5 billion settlement with victims ...

LOS ANGELES—B. Don Russell wasn’t thinking about preventing a wildfire when he developed a tool to detect power ...

Robert Kerbeck and his family fought to protect their home during the Woolsey wildfire in southern California in ...

Officials in Santa Barbara, California, ordered thousands of residents to evacuate their homes on Monday, Nov. 25, as ...

PG&E Corp.’s plan to pay $11 billion to fire insurers is under attack from both California Governor Gavin ...

As the 2019 wildfires in California continue to burn through acres of land, thousands of tireless firefighters are ...

While many fires in the most recent round of wildfires in California have been fully contained, other blazes ...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif.—A wind-whipped outbreak of wildfires outside Los Angeles threatened thousands of homes and horse ranches on ...

SANTA ROSA, California—California’s governor declared a statewide emergency with nearly 200,000 people ordered to flee their homes because ...

SAN FRANCISCO—A wildfire in Northern California's wine country forced nearly 100,000 people to flee their homes over the ...

Millions of Californians prepared to live in the dark again as the state’s largest utility warned it might ...

California's persistent wildfires have prompted firefighting authorities to take what some consider to be less than ideal measures ...

VP Pence delivers China policy speech; Rep. Cummings lies in State at Capitol today; House GOP members storm ...

Three deaths have been linked to two wildfires that ravaged parts of Southern California, shut down schools, and ...

Tens of thousands of wildfire victims could soon miss out on an opportunity for compensation as the Oct. ...

LOS ANGELES—Three people have died at the scene of Southern California wildfires this week, authorities said Saturday, Oct. ...

California is well into wildfire season, but the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire) is always open ...

With California's wildfire season in full swing, the state is preparing for the worst while reflecting on recent ...

PG&E warned customers on Saturday, Sept. 21 that it may turn off power in six Northern California counties ...

Light rain falling on July 24, in a forested Arizona city helped crews battle a wildfire that has ...

VILA DE REI, Portugal—More than 800 firefighters battled a wildfire sweeping across central Portugal on July 21, after ...

Saskatchewan has offered to host up to 2,000 evacuees from forest fires that are affecting northern communities in ...