If confirmed, Rollins would take charge of the agency at a time when many farmers have seen their profits plunge and when the Forest Service is joining efforts to fight a wave of wildfires in ...

President Donald Trump, who has hurled criticism at state and local leaders over what he calls faulty water- and forest-management policies that he says contributed to the region's deadly wildfires, ...

Legislation to reduce the impact of increasingly devastating forest fires on US federal land passed the House of Representatives on Thursday.

In Ruffner’s fire management class, SIU forestry students are following the headlines closely, letting current events in California lead their learning in a way textbooks never could.

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted the second week of January and roared ...

Two new fires have erupted today in San Diego, sparking evacuations, as dangerously dry and windy weather conditions continue. The Gilman Fire broke out in the La Jolla neighborhood, near Gilman Drive ...

Federal investigators are searching for two men who were caught on video stealing critical fire equipment during the Los Angeles wildfire response.

The Palisades and Eaton wildfires continue burning in the Los Angeles area that left parts of Southern California with ...

California Democrats blocked a Republican amendment to add $1 billion in wildfire prevention funding to the state's $2.5 billion wildfire recovery bill during a simple procedural ...

At least 28 people are believed to be dead and more than a dozen others remain unaccounted for as multiple wildfires rage ...

While the insurance cost of the devastation is estimated to be around $30 billion, another tally puts the total damage at upward of $250 billion.