Hey, I'm Jacob Margolis, and this is The Big Burn. [music in] Over the last five episodes of the show, we've gone really deep on all things fire. We've talked about the dangers of fuel buildup ...

A new plan from California's insurance commissioner aims to stop the nation's top insurers from leaving the wildfire-prone ...

A woman who started a fire at a Target store in Southern California used it as a distraction to steal baby formula, police ...

California claims the five biggest oil and gas companies knew that using their products led to climate change, but then spent ...

The majority of the state's school buildings were designed when triple-digit heat waves, wildfires and superstorms struck ...

The question of how to protect California's remaining giant sequoias, and how to manage America’s remaining forests in an era of climate-magnified megafires, has divided scientists and the ...

As smoke from Northern California fires continues to choke the Bay Area, and fire concerns continue to grow, a Bay Area ...

There are two kinds of longevity seekers in this world: the ones who spend money trying to cheat death, and the ones who just ...

The largest wildfire currently burning in the United States is raging in California’s densely forested northwest corner. The Smith River Complex — actually a cluster of connected blazes ...

Doused by days of rain, thousands of people stuck on the muddy playa at the Burning Man festival began to trickle out of the remote area in northwestern Nevada on Monday. Long lines of RVs, trucks ...

Soaking rain is forecast to fall over several active large wildfires in far Northern California and western Oregon.

The Smith River Complex, covering more than 75,000 acres, has closed roads, forced power outages and delayed the start of school for thousands of students. By Soumya Karlamangla Smoke and flames ...