California is abnormally dry after low-precipitation winter
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A dry beginning of the year has left most of California abnormally parched and officials are bracin...
California wildfire victims fear coming last in PG&E payout
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A $13.5 billion settlement between victims of California’s catastrophic wildfires and the utility b...
Cause of Los Angeles-area refinery fire under investigation
CARSON, Calif. (AP) — The cause of an explosion and fire at a Southern California refinery was under investigation Wedne...
Crews battle fire in park close to Appalachian Trail, I-80
HARDWICK TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Firefighters from federal and New Jersey agencies battled a forest fire for a second day ...
Judge rips PG&E for poor safety record leading to wildfires
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. judge ripped into Pacific Gas & Electric on Wednesday, saying its executives have put gr...
Report: Work to reduce wildfire risks has economic benefits
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Projects to reduce the risk of wildfires and protect water sources in the U.S. West have create...
PG&E banking on big profits after utility leaves bankruptcy
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas and Electric says it expects to become more profitable than ever after it emerges from ...
Haiti officials say 15 children died in residence fire
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A fire swept through a Haitian children's home run by a Pennsylvania-based religious nonprofit group, killing 15 children, off...
Minnesota Wild fire coach Bruce Boudreau
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Wild fired coach Bruce Boudreau on Friday after their 30th loss of the season.
Lone door led out as fire burned Indian factory of US denim
NEW DELHI — Shouting and crying, workers in an Indian denim factory struggled to claw their way up a ladder to a door, their only exit as a fire blaze...
Ferocious storm in Europe kills 8, causes travel disruptions
BERLIN — Ferocious winds, with gusts over 200 kph (125 mph), lashed Corsica and whipped up a forest fire that flared overnight on the French Mediterra...
Fire sale: An Iran plant makes the US flags protesters burn
KHOMEIN, Iran — Near the hometown of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, workers at a small Iranian factory diligently add all 50 stars and 13 red-a...
Deluge in Australia drenches fires and eases 3-year drought
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Drought, wildfires and now flooding have given Australia's weather an almost Biblical feel this year. The good news is that ...
Victims: PG&E still has rickety power line near Paradise
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric is still operating a rickety power line near the one that ignited a 2018 wildfire that wiped out the Northe...
Grenfell chair requests UK pledge on witness immunity
LONDON — The chairman of the inquiry into a London tower bloc fire that killed 72 people wrote to Britain's attorney general Thursday to ask for a ple...
California firefighters return from battling Australia fires
LOS ANGELES — Twenty firefighters from California returned to the United States on Wednesday after spending nearly a month battling wildfires in Austr...
Australian bank official says virus is an economic unknown
CANBERRA, Australia — Australia's deadly wildfires will have no impact on the nation's economic growth this year but the impact of a new virus is stil...
As forests burn around the world, drinking water is at risk
Fabric curtains stretch across the huge Warragamba Dam to trap ash and sediment expected to wash off wildfire-scorched slopes and into the reservoir t...
PG&E clears another bankruptcy hurdle with debt refinancing
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge on Tuesday approved a settlement that moves Pacific Gas & Electric closer to getting out of bankruptcy, but the tr...
Extreme weather has gardeners looking for resilient plants
Fiercer and more frequent natural disasters in recent years have many homeowners re-evaluating their landscaping. Many are restocking with trees and p...
Wildfire creates state of emergency in Australian capital
CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian capital region declared a state of emergency on Friday because of an out-of-control forest fire burning erratical...
PG&E and California governor at odds over bankruptcy plan
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric attorneys on Wednesday assured a federal judge the utility will emerge from bankruptcy by its June deadline...
Women, 5 children among 8 victims of Alabama dock fire
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — A woman and her five children were among the eight people who died in a dock fire at a north Alabama marina, authorities and relati...
A failed Italian job: Driver evades flaming highway robbery
MILAN — In a bid to rob an armored vehicle, a gang of thieves set up barriers of burning vehicles and spilled nails on a highway near Milan but were f...
Coroner: 4 of 8 boat dock fire victims were children
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. — Roughly two dozen people lived on Dock B at Jackson County Park Marina, and none was rich or famous. They were middle-class adults ...
Sundance: Ron Howard documents aftermath of the Camp Fire
PARK CITY, Utah — Ron Howard knew Paradise, the northern California town devastated by the most destructive wildfire in California history.
3 Americans killed in Australia all had military backgrounds
DENVER — Growing up in a small rural community on Colorado's plains, Ian McBeth went to work as a ranch hand in neighboring Nebraska at 14 and was a s...
Why tech has been slow to fight wildfires, extreme weather
SAN FRANCISCO — For two years running , California’s wildfires have sent plumes of smoke across Silicon Valley. So far, that hasn't spurred much tech ...
Neighbor wanted Hawaii cop killing suspect evicted years ago
HONOLULU — A next door neighbor of a handyman accused of stabbing a woman and killing two Hawaii police officers before setting his home and neighborh...
Suspect in Hawaii officers’ deaths described as unhinged
HONOLULU — A Hawaii handyman with a history of run-ins with police and neighbors faced eviction when he stabbed a woman and killed two officers before...