Federal investigators are seeking the cause of an Amtrak train derailment near a switch on tracks in the middle of vast farmland in far northern Montana that killed three people and left seven hospitalized over the weekend. The westbound Empire …
Thousands of people were under evacuation orders Friday and many others were on notice to be ready to flee as a destructive wildfire raged in a drought-stricken forest in California’s far north. A woman suspected of starting the Fawn Fire …
The National Transportation Safety Board released its preliminary report on last month’s gas line explosion in Coolidge, Ariz., that destroyed a home and killed a man and his 14-year-old daughter. NTSB investigators said a natural gas pipeline ruptured around 5:30 …
The U.S. government released projections Wednesday that indicate an even more troubling outlook for a river that serves 40 million people in the American West. The Bureau of Reclamation recently declared the first-ever shortage on the Colorado River, which means …
PG&E Corp. told a judge it has put into place new safety measures that would have resulted in power being cut to a utility line suspected of sparking the second-largest wildfire in California history. The California utility giant said it …
Martin Diky said he panicked as a huge wildfire started racing down a slope toward his wooden house near Lake Tahoe. The contractor had enough time to do some quick research and decided to wrap his mountain home with an …
A small earthquake shook the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area Friday night, the U.S. Geological Survey confirmed. There weren’t any immediate reports of major damage or injuries. The magnitude-4.3 quake struck shortly after 7:58 p.m. and was centered near Carson, …
Several massive blazes have plagued Northern California this year, and now it could be Southern California’s turn. The Dixie and Caldor fires continue to do damage in Northern California, putting the state at more than 2.2 million acres burned this …
State Sen. Pat Woods saw a lot of it over this past year – cows culled from a herd and sent to the slaughterhouse because their owners couldn’t afford to feed them anymore. “It was awfully dry,” said the longtime …
The huge wildfire near the Lake Tahoe resort region was about half contained as of Tuesday night, with the head of California’s firefighting agency saying crews largely have been able to keep flames away from populated areas. “We’ve been able …
