Residents in burn scar areas should be ready to evacuate if needed. City and county agencies have readied streets for debris ...

The petition lays out a number of reasons why Denmark would benefit from the mooted purchase of The Golden State, including ...

The Mississippi House has approved a resolution that would allow five seats in the chamber to be re-decided in a November special election to comply with a federal court order ...

If you were looking for signs of an early spring, well, look elsewhere, because most of southern Canada is about to get walloped by a strong hit of winter weather.

Sonoma chose to switch to city council districts to stave off threatened litigation by a Southern California activist ...

It wasn't only Antonia de la Ascensión who made this strange error. Juan de Iturbe, who explored parts of California in 1615, ...

Snow, sleet and freezing rain were expected to continue pummeling the central Appalachians and mid-Atlantic states Wednesday, ...

In one of the largest deals to protect open space in the Bay Area over the past decade, an environmental group is purchasing a scenic redwood forest in the North Bay that will create a 7-mile-long ...

Karen Whaley, 64, was charged with elder abuse and battery with serious bodily injury against her 87-year-old mother. The ...

The number of California acres mapped into higher "fire hazard severity zones" is doubling. Stricter fire safety building ...

In some areas, hazards have surged. Buildings in the highest hazard zones will be subject to the strictest fire-resiliency ...

By Matt Stiles, Sean O'Key, Byron Manley, Lou Robinson, Curt Merrill, Annette Choi, Rachel Wilson, Henrik Pettersson, Amy ...