Philly is already in the thick of Fourth of July week preparations and festivities, with Wawa’s Welcome America lineup in ...

California, gripped by a housing shortage, wants to build 2.5 million homes. But it's running out of safe places to put them.

Oregon lawmakers passed an oral nicotine tax to pay for some wildfire costs, while a bill aimed at getting wildfire survivors ...

The state tried to link building codes to hazardous areas, provoking a yearslong backlash from rural communities.

PORTLAND — Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentious wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in ...

As more communities are shown to be at higher long-term risk of wildfires, Rocklin and Rancho Cordova explain what they are ...

The Oregon House voted Tuesday to repeal a controversial wildfire hazard map and home-hardening requirements that accompanied it. Rural Oregonians and their representatives in the Legislature had ...

The bill repeals a map meant to identify parts of Oregon at high risk of wildfires that became a lightning rod for anger from ...

The Eaton Fire devastated Altadena, killing 17 people and destroying more than 9,000 structures. Under the old maps, only a small percentage of Altadena was in a fire hazard zone.

On June 17, 2025, Santa Barbara’s City Council officially adopted the revision of the Fire Hazard Severity Zones as per the recommendation of the California State Fire Marshall. This marks a major ...

This happened just after 11:30 p.m. east of Lake Arcadia near NE 150th and Post Road. Firefighters say everyone inside escaped, and no one was hurt. Firefighters say the damage is believed to be ...