When the federal government shut down at 12:01 a.m. on Oct. 1, few could predict how quickly the fallout would reach mountain ...

It's dry, hot, and windy. Nothing out of the ordinary for mid-August in the Sierra, but the ideal conditions for the spread of a wildfire. With a few months left in fire season, the Tahoe National ...

Cal Fire and Placer County Fire Department were dispatched to a medical rescue for a motorcycle crash that resulted in the ...

(FOX40.COM) — The U.S. Forest Service has a prescribed burn set for the Tahoe National Forest on Tuesday, north of Truckee. Video above: Police arrest popular cliff jumper for rope swinging at Lake ...

Crews with Cal Fire and the Placer County Fire Department arrived to find the driver about 15 to 20 feet down an embankment.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.SOUTH LAKE TAHOE ... Marcus Pacheco, an assistant fire engine operator for Lassen National Forest with 30 years of experience, died on Thursday. He was assigned to the Dixie ...

MEYERS -- A wind-whipped forest fire in the popular resort area of Lake Tahoe destroyed at least 165 homes and other structures Sunday and threatened 500 others, authorities said. Kit Bailey, the U.S.

Wildfires have long been a part of life in the U.S., especially in the West, but we don’t have to simply accept the growing ...

The Trump administration wants to increase logging in forests to simultaneously boost timber production and reduce wildfire risk. Yet, a new study shows that industrial private land managed by timber ...