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Come hear from Byron Stickler, who earlier this year caught a trophy brown trout at Shaver Lake; fishing guide Dick Nichols, ...

The city council held a goal-setting session on the first weekend of October to outline priorities for city staff to work ...

Several locations operated by the Nevada County Fire Safe Council (FSC) were served search warrants this week as part of an investigation into the potential embezzlement of ...

West Valley Fire Department was dispatched to reports of a rapidly spreading grass fire in the area of Old Reserve Drive and West Valley. Initial reports indicated flames and smoke in a grassy ...

About 13,000 customers in Northern California woke up without electricity Friday after Pacific Gas and Electric shut off ...

Firefighting crews took advantage of calmer weather Sunday to increase containment of a small wildfire in Oakland, California ...

Crews are responding to reports of a grass fire near Interstate 80 and Northgate Boulevard on Thursday evening.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office is investigating after homemade explosives sparked a grass fire near Lincoln on Friday. Deputies and Southeast Rural Fire and Rescue ...

CARNEY, Okla. (KFOR) — Emergency crews responded to a large grass fire in Lincoln County near the town of Carney late Tuesday morning. Video from McIntyre Chopper 4 shows a large area of burned ...

No structures were lost and no injuries were reported when several wildfires broke out north of Bismarck over the weekend and scorched 2,300 acres. Meanwhile, Burleigh and Emmons counties have ...

Deputies and Southeast Rural Fire and Rescue responded to a grass fire near South 98th Street and Pioneers Boulevard just after 9 p.m. on Friday. Zion Lutheran Church was once called the ...