The Legislature’s special committee on California wildfires meets Tuesday in a hearing room crowded with lobbyists. (Robbie Short — CALmatters) A MUST READ Between the end of last year’s deadly wildfires and the start of this summer’s fatal blazes, utilities and...

Wildfires rage in the Algarve – in pictures More than 1,000 firefighters are battling blazes for a seventh day in the popular tourist area in Portugal. Extremely high temperatures have been blamed for Click...

SALT LAKE CITY — As wildfires ravage the U.S. West, Republican Senate candidate Mitt Romney has called for more logging and a high-tech early detection system in a plan that was met with some skepticism. Romney, a candidate in Utah, said in an essay that more logging...

Firefighters battle the Ranch Fire near Clearlake Oaks, California, on Aug. 5.   Photographer: Noah Berger/AFP via Getty Images Lakeport, (AP) — Wildfires tearing through trees and brush, rampaging up hillsides and incinerating neighborhoods: The...

AN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration declared a “major disaster” in California as the state fights devastating wildfires that have now claimed at least nine lives. The declaration makes federal funds available to residents of Shasta County, where the...

More than 100 Spanish firefighters, similar to this one pictured in October 2017, are tackling a wildfire that threatens one of Spains’ famous Estrecho national parks (AFP Photo/MIGUEL RIOPA) More Madrid (AFP) – Firefighters were battling Wednesday to put...

UPPER LAKE, Calif. (AP) – Firefighters struggling to contain destructive Northern California wildfires found themselves facing a new blaze that erupted Tuesday and drove through a rural area near a national forest. About 60 homes in an old ranching and farming...

CREDIT: ASSOCIATED PRESS Above: A plane battling the Ferguson Fire passes the setting sun in unincorporated Mariposa County Calif., near Yosemite National Park on Sunday, July 15, 2018. Jessyca Lytle fled a fast-moving Northern California wildfire in 2015 that spared...

It only took a little over 15 minutes for Ed Bledsoe to lose three lives that meant the world to him — his wife and their two great-grandchildren. He had left his home in Shasta County, California, on Thursday to go to the doctor, he told CNN on Sunday. The Carr Fire...

Retired Marine rescues horses from raging California wildfire that has killed five and displaced more than 38,000 people Tucker Zimmerman is venturing into evacuation zones to save horses left behind Stables, rodeo grounds, and ranches are offering their property for...