As the risks of disasters grow, the insurance industry is adapting with them — and consumer advocates and others fear that the brunt of the bills will increasingly hit low-income homeowners.
ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Hundreds of square miles of national forest in northeast Nevada have reopened for public use after a closure ordered nearly a month ago due to a raging wildfire.
Senator Catherine Cortez Masto wants the Federal Emergency Management Agency to reconsider a decision to deny Nevada’s application for a fire assistance management grant.
As fall — usually California's busiest fire season — approaches, officials say the agency that oversees emergency fire responses is running out of money.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities say a suspected arsonist who set several wildfires along a Utah interstate may also be responsible for fires in Wyoming.
Investigator Jason Curry, of the Utah Forestry, Fire and State Lands, says six fires that started alo
Smoke from wildfires is blanketing much of the West. That's ruining some crops and may be stunting others. And it's making it difficult or unsafe for laborers to pick the harvest.
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The 370 structures burned in Utah wildfires so far this year is more than the previous five years combined and the most in the last 15 years.
BATTLE MOUNTAIN, Nev. (AP) — Two Nevada firefighters remain hospitalized with severe burns they suffered when flames burned over their engine while responding to a wildfire that started after a helicopter crashed 15 miles north of Battle Mountain on Saturday.
A preliminary report suggests that a firefighter who died last week fighting the Mendocino Complex fire was killed by falling tree debris after thousands of gallons of retardant were dropped on the area where he was working.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Destruction of sage grouse habitat by a series of large wildfires has prompted a ban on hunting for the game bird this fall across a stretch of north-central Nevada nearly twice as big as the state of Delaware.
California authorities say the behemoth killed a firefighter battling the Carr Fire last month. Larger than three football fields, the tornado was unlike anything they'd seen. Now, they have video.
The Mendocino Complex Fire, the biggest in the state's history, now covers 457 square miles. Officials previously estimated Aug. 15 for its containment, but now say it won't be until Sept. 1.
The Carr Fire, which killed seven people, has been partially contained and the threat to residents reduced. But the Mendocino Complex Fire is now the second-largest wildfire in state history.
There are 18 fires blazing in California, and officials say this year the wildfires have spread faster and burned more land earlier in the fire season than usual.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Dense smoke from a series of wildfires burning in California has triggered air quality alerts across more than a 400-mile stretch of Nevada from Reno to Las Vegas.
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Smoke from a series of large wildfires burning in northern California and northern Nevada has created some of the worst air pollution levels ever recorded in the Reno-Sparks area.
