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The unprecedented “reckless burning” charge came in a conservative county with a long history of tension between landowners and federal authorities, including the 2016 takeover of a nearby wildlife refuge by armed protesters.

On June 5, 2020, a lightning strike hit dry vegetation in the Catalina Mountains, creating what would become one of the largest fires in our citys history.

The Wildfire Resiliency Hoop-A-Thon will raise money for a trio of fire programs in Oregon

In 2022, Reed, Trefny and two other students — Bradley Massey, a junior at Alabama A&M University, and Alyssa Worsham, who recently completed her master’s at Western Colorado University — formed the FireGeneration Collaborative (FireGen, for short), a group that advocates for centering Indigenous knowledge and bringing more young people into the wildfire space.

FireGeneration advocates for Indigenous-led, youth-powered approaches to the wildfire crisis

More than 120,000 tax lots across Oregon are in areas prone to wildfires and are considered at “high” or “extreme” risk of burning, according to a new statewide map released

This is a story about frustration, about watching the West burn when you fully understand why it’s burning — and understand why it did not need to be this bad.

New Mexico Relaxes Mask Rules For The Fully Vaccinated – Associated Press New Mexico has adopted guidance on facemasks from the Centers for Disease Control

   Associated Press New Mexico is now administering the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 to children ages 12 to 15, as state health officials pushed Thursday for more people to get vaccinated. The move by the state Health Department follows authorizations this week by the federal Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The state is encouraging families to register children on its vaccine website. The expanded availability applies only to the Pfizer vaccine...

US officials say they’ll try to stamp out wildfires as quickly as possible this year as severe drought tightens its grip across the West.