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Former President Jimmy Carter once was offered a gift from Northern California: a 9-ton peanut carved from a redwood tree.

The devastating wind-driven wildfires impacting Southern California have prompted some to criticize federal and state rules that impede mitigation efforts.

The winter chill has arrived, and you love the snow, but you’ve decided there’s no point sitting at home curled up by the ...

The University of Missouri Extension and the Department of Conservation are enlisting landowners to plant and care for white ...

Wildfires in Los Angeles have once again shown their devastating force, this time forcing thousands of people, including ...

Major fires in southern California destroyed more than a thousand buildings, forced tens of thousands of people to flee, and ...

The Biden administration is dropping its plan to conserve old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the ...

FORKS — A 35-year-old man was rescued from a remote part of the Hoh Valley. The man had fallen down a hill near the Hoh Mainline on Monday, said Lt. James Walsh of the U.S. Coast Guard. Walsh, who ...

With flames driven by hurricane-force winds, “it feels like Armageddon,” said one woman who was forced to evacuate. “It’s just smoke and darkness.” ...

Firefighters scrambled to corral a fast-moving wildfire in the Los Angeles hillsides dotted with celebrity homes as a potentially “life-threatening, destructive” windstorm hit Southern California on ...