High winds and dry conditions have significantly heightened the fire risk across Texas, prompting officials to warn of "extreme fire danger" in West Texas, stretching from the Big Bend region ...

Yet, another late season — or, is it really late season — cold front crossed across the coast late Saturday. Winds picked up out of the north/northwest and became quite gusty at times. Catches fell ...

BAY CITY, Texas — A 63-year-old man is dead after a house fire in Bay City Sunday morning, according to the Bay City Fire Marshal's Office. Emergency crews with the Bay City Volunteer Fire ...

A Bay Area fire department employee and El Dorado County resident is accused of possessing child pornography and trying to meet with a child for sex, the Modesto Police Department said Friday.

PROSPECT PARK — FOUR MONTHS AFTER A 2-ALARM FIRE coursed through two-acres of Prospect Park’s woodland Ravine, Brooklyn’s last remaining upland forest, Prospect Park Alliance has kicked off ...

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A Bay Area city council didn’t downplay its disappointment in Caltrain over cost estimates to realign a busy intersection that’s prone to accidents on the tracks. During a public meeting on ...

Several major brush fires that spread through parts of Long Island over the weekend, prompting highway closures and evacuations from a nearby military base, are believed to have been accidentally ...

Four separate weekend brush fires in eastern Suffolk County are believed to have been sparked by embers from a family attempting to make s'mores Saturday morning in their Manorville backyard ...

Dozens of investigators tasked with determining the origin of Saturday's brush fires on Long Island have linked the blazes to a backyard in Manorville. Officials said Monday that the fires were ...

North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea on Monday, just hours after South Korea and the United States kicked off their first major joint military exercise of President Donald ...

SHIRLEY, N.Y. (PIX11) — Fire officials in Suffolk County say that a s’mores-making incident this past weekend caused some of the worst brush fires Long Island has seen in three decades.