Crews battle California blazes before windstorms return
LOS ANGELES — Crews fought Tuesday to drown, slash and smother wildfires that have incinerated dozens of homes in Northern and Southern California bef...
Fresh protests, looting erupt in Chile despite new Cabinet
SANTIAGO, Chile — Fresh protests and attacks on businesses erupted in Chile Monday despite President Sebastián Piñera's replacement of eight key Cabin...
Utility says power lines may have started 2 California fires
SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. power lines may have started two wildfires over the weekend in the San Francisco Bay Area, the uti...
Wildfire forces residents, celebrities to flee
LOS ANGELES — A wildfire swept through the star-studded hills of Los Angeles on Monday, destroying several large homes and forcing LeBron James and th...
New evacuations, power outages near California wildfire
SAN FRANCISCO — New evacuations were ordered Saturday for at least 50,000 people near a huge wildfire and millions of Californians will have their pow...
Firefighters race to control blazes before winds roar back
LOS ANGELES — Howling winds that fueled destructive wildfires across California began to die down Friday, but residents in the northern part of the st...
Wind-whipped fires rage across California as lights go out
GEYSERVILLE, Calif. — Fast-growing fires throughout California forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes Thursday as dry winds and hi...
16 sentenced to death for setting Bangladesh student on fire
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A court in eastern Bangladesh sentenced the principal of an Islamic school and 15 others to death on Thursday over the killing of ...
California governor “owns” blackouts, takes political risk
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — With hundreds of thousands of Californians again in the dark amid high wildfire danger Thursday, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom had...
Fire has industry rethinking guidance to dump burning trash
It was a hot, windy day in Southern California when a trash truck caught fire and the driver dumped the burning garbage on the side of the road. Minut...
California utility begins another blackout amid fire fears
SAN FRANCISCO — Lights went out across large portions of Northern California on Wednesday, as the state's largest utility began its second massive bla...
The Latest: Edison increase estimate of possible power cuts
SAN FRANCISCO — The Latest on planned power shutoffs to prevent wildfires (all times local):