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.

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 ...

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

OROVILLE — The Butte County Board of Supervisors moved forward with adopting the new Fire Hazard Severity Zone map for its local responsibility area during its meeting Tuesday, a move required ...

Cal Fire used the 2015 map in its analysis — but fire scientists also updated the map with 2022 and 2023 parcel data for the area, which showed that most of the eucalyptus grove had been cut ...

The approval is required by state law, officials said. In county fire's jurisdiction, the proposed maps include 59,000 parcels in very high hazard areas, up from 49,000 in the current maps.

On March 10, Cal Fire released the local maps, which must be approved within 120 days, officials said. The Board of Supervisors is expected to hold a second public hearing and consider adopting ...

Earlier this year Cal Fire — the state’s firefighting agency — released an updated set of fire hazard maps, the first in almost 15 years.

The new state maps expanded fire hazard zones into Finchbaugh’s neighborhood on the Mesa, especially near Cliff Drive and Flora Vista. The area is now considered moderate to high hazard severity ...