Financial tug-of-war emerges over fire victims’ settlement
SAN FRANCISCO — A financial tug-of-war is emerging over the $13.5 billion that the nation's largest utility has agreed to pay to victims of recent Cal...
Cheers, tears, prayers for 2020: A new decade is ushered in
Revelers around the globe are bidding farewell to a decade that will be remembered for the rise of social media, the Arab Spring, the #MeToo movement ...
California’s Gov. Newsom had ‘baptism by fire’ in 1st year
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — During his inaugural address last January, California Gov. Gavin Newsom made only a passing reference to wildfires and never ment...
New Year’s fireworks OK’d in Sydney as wildfire risk worsens
PERTH, Australia — Sydney will set off its iconic New Year's fireworks display after being granted an exemption to a total fire ban Monday as other Au...
Police: Parishioners kill man who fatally shoots 2 at church
WHITE SETTLEMENT, Texas — A man pulled out a shotgun at a Texas church service and fired on worshippers Sunday, killing two people before he was shot ...
NTSB: Poor condition of wreckage will slow plane crash probe
The lack of a distress call and flight data recorder coupled with mangled and charred wreckage will make finding the cause of a fiery airplane crash i...
Sydney New Year’s fireworks to go ahead despite wildfires
PERTH, Australia — Sydney's iconic New Year's Eve fireworks will go ahead despite the wildfire crisis to show the world Australia’s resiliency, the pr...
Thousands of koalas feared dead in Australia wildfires
PERTH, Australia — Thousands of koalas are feared to have died in a wildfire-ravaged area north of Sydney, further diminishing Australia's iconic mars...
Australia firefighters brace for extreme heatwave at weekend
PERTH, Australia — Firefighters battling wildfires in Australia’s most populous state attempted to make headway Thursday amid favorable conditions, be...
Wildfire-ravaged areas of Australia get holiday relief
PERTH, Australia — Areas of Australia that have been ravaged by deadly wildfires experienced temporary relief on Wednesday, but oppressive conditions ...
Wildfires cause turmoil in CA property insurance market
NEW YORK — Kent Michitsch seemed to be running out of traditional options to insure the home he’s lived in for more than 30 years northeast of San Die...
Investigators sift through debris at deadly Las Vegas fire
LAS VEGAS — Investigators were going room-by-room Monday at a downtown Las Vegas apartment building where six people were killed and 13 injured in a f...
Australia’s PM defends climate stance amid wildfire disaster
PERTH, Australia — Australia's embattled Prime Minister defended his government’s climate policy Monday, as authorities warned the wildfires crisis ra...
Notre Dame fire wakes the world up to dangers of lead dust
PARIS — It took a blaze that nearly destroyed Paris’ most famous cathedral to reveal a gap in global safety regulations for lead, a toxic building mat...
Australia’s leader apologizes for vacation amid wildfires
SYDNEY — Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison apologized Sunday for taking a family vacation in Hawaii as deadly bushfires raged across several st...
Australia battles ‘catastrophic’ wildfires as PM rushes home
PERTH, Australia — Australia’s most populous state was paralyzed by “catastrophic” fire conditions Saturday amid souring temperatures, while one perso...
AP Exclusive: PG&E’s history with blackouts signaled trouble
SAN FRANCISCO — The state senators grilling the CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. were upset — like millions of other Californians, some spent d...
Notre Dame Cathedral to miss first Christmas in centuries
PARIS — Notre Dame kept Christmas going even during two world wars — a beacon of hope amid the bloodshed.
2 firefighters die, 3 hurt as wildfires ravage Australia
PERTH, Australia — Two volunteer firefighters died Thursday while battling wildfires ravaging Australia’s most populous state, forcing Prime Minister ...
California expands insurance protections in wildfire areas
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — More than a million California homes are now protected under a new law that temporarily bans insurance companies from dropping cu...
PG&E, California wildfire victims rework $13.5B settlement
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric reworked a $13.5 billion settlement with victims of deadly wildfires blamed on the utility to try to preven...
PG&E, California governor face off in bankruptcy dispute
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will have to quickly overhaul a complex plan addressing more than $50 billion in wildfire claims to gai...
Authors scuttle planned TV show about deadly warehouse fire
SAN FRANCISCO — Anger over plans for a television series about a deadly warehouse fire in the San Francisco Bay Area has led husband-and-wife authors ...
California governor rejects $13.5 billion PG&E settlement
SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom has rejected a $13.5 billion settlement that Pacific Gas and Electric struck just last week with thousand...
The women of ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’ blaze a new path
NEW YORK — What’s inside the frame and what’s outside of it are electrifyingly synonymous in French filmmaker Céline Sciamma’s “Portrait of a Lady on ...
California to protect insurance policies in wildfire areas
Sacramento, Calif — California on Thursday temporarily banned insurance companies from dropping customers in areas affected by more than a dozen recen...
Probe can’t determine cause of Minneapolis high-rise fire
MINNEAPOLIS — Fire officials said Monday they could not determine the exact cause of a high-rise apartment fire that killed five people last week in M...
Tech aims to predict problems on power lines before disaster
LOS ANGELES — B. Don Russell wasn’t thinking about preventing a wildfire when he developed a tool to detect power line problems before they cause equi...
Paradise’s dream football season ends 1 year after fire
YUBA CITY, Calif. — Lukas Hartley stood in the endzone on Saturday night as raindrops mingled with his tears after his high school football team lost ...
California high school competes for title after deadly fire
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A Northern California high school football team will play for a championship Saturday one year after most of the players and coac...