Gary Gerren, the affable fire chief in the community of Fallen Leaf Lake, is serious about protecting the few hundred full-time residents and the thousands of summer daytrippers who descend on his ...

Evacuating the Tahoe basin in summer could take 14 hours, and 99% of properties are at risk — yet new resorts are being built ...

Evacuating the Tahoe basin in summer could take 14 hours, and 99% of properties are at risk — yet new resorts are being built ...

The corruption of the US Forest Service is manifest nationwide, not just in the West. Numerous huge desecrations, such as at ...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (WOWT) - Weeks after the federal agency froze hiring and training for thousands of federal firefighters at the order of the president, the regional U.S. Forest Service covering five ...

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins made her first visit to Western North Carolina to see the damage Hurricane Helene ...

In an internal email from the Forest Service on Feb. 18, forest supervisors for Region 5, which oversees California, were instructed to list public facilities that could close this year as a ...

What do the foster care system, the War of 1812, and the Menendez brothers have in common? They were all subjects of student projects at the inaugural Region 6 History Day competition held at Ouachita ...

By 8 p.m. CT, the service said severe weather in the region was "almost done" as the line of storms ... Earlier Tuesday, the Texas A&M Forest Service said extreme fire weather conditions were expected ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team ...