Firefighters are responding to a three-car wreck reported on eastbound Highway 44 at the Park Marina Drive exit.

The lightning-sparked McDonald Fire near the Lassen County town of Termo has grown to an estimated 9,000 acres, according to the Susanville Interagency Fire Center.

Firefighters are en route tonight to two vegetation fires in Anderson.

Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics had the sense to post the judge's ruling I mentioned earlier. This line -- from a section on indirect effects of fire retardant -- is too much: Plaintiff argues that the use of aerial...

If I lived in Lewiston, where the photo above was shot last summer during the Coffin Fire, I'd not have been complaining that firefighters were pulling out all the stops to protect my and my neighbors' homes. But an...

A lightning-sparked Lassen County wildfire grew to 7,000 acres Wednesday.

Cooler weather this week has helped firefighters make progress on some 194 lightning-sparked fires that have burned 900 acres in far northeastern California.

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection firefighters, along with Palo Cedro fire and rescue personnel, work to remove the driver of a pickup that crashed Wednesday afternoon off Deschutes Road north of Anderson. The pickup went off the road in an area north of Dersch Road, near Beatie Road, and flipped, landi

Firefighters are en route this evening to a vegetation fire at Boyle Road near Maddelein Lane east of Redding.

Wonderful feature from the Medford paper about a fire lookout that surveys part of the north state. It's a career that might have appealed to Garbo in her later years. Read it here....

Cooler weather helped firefighters make progress Tuesday on some 180-plus lightning-sparked blazes in far northeastern California.

More than 150 wildfires sparked by lightning this weekend continued burning Tuesday night across far northern and northeastern California as more thunderstorms developed.

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JOHNSON PARK - Firefighters contained late this afternoon a stubborn 1.5-acre fire that burned brush, grass and timber near here.

Over 150 wildfires sparked by lightning this weekend continued burning Monday night across far northern and northeastern California as more thunderstorms developed.

Three successive rounds of thunderstorms strafed still-parched northeastern California over the weekend, with lightning touching off more than 70 wildfires.

Firefighters have contained at 18 acres a grass fire off Ash Creek Road near Coleman Forebay Road east of Anderson.

Firefighters have extinguished a fire reported on a house boat at Bridge Bay Marina on Lake Shasta.

Thunderstorms have erupted again in far northeastern California, where dozens of lightning-sparked wildfires are already burning.

Firefighters extinguished today an abandoned campfire that burned about a half-acre of land off Wilson Hill Road near Grace Resort Road in the Shingletown area.

Two boys playing with a lighter are being blamed for starting a 1.5-acre vegetation fire that burned right up to the Shasta Villa Apartments today.

Firefighters stayed busy this afternoon in the Anderson area.

The Shasta Lake Fire Protection District has approved a $29-a-year parcel tax that a former board member claims to be illegal.

Crank up the air conditioner. Redding is expected to see today a high temperature near 106 degrees, officials with the National Weather Service in Sacramento say. Meanwhile, Saturday’s high is expected to be near 108 degrees, while Sunday should see a high near 106. The National Weather Service has also issued a fire weat

Recall: Playard tents, due to strangulation hazard The death of a two-year-old boy has prompted the recall of some 20,000 Cozy Indoor Outdoor Portable Playard Tents Pl

Redding firefighters are fighting a motor home fire in a backyard surrounded by dry brush.

Firefighters battled early this morning a fire at residence on Amigo Way in Redding where a fifth-wheel recreational vehicle and boat caught on fire in the backyard.

SHASTA LAKE — Weeds — the non-medicinal kind — are sprouting up throughout this city, prompting the Shasta Lake Fire Protection District to issue about 600 nuisance letters to property owners telling them to whack them down.

Redding City Council candidate Russell Hunt wants to fire city management and turn many public services over to private contractors.

A fire burned through tires and debris at the Iron Mountain Mine federal cleanup site west of Redding this afternoon, but didn’t spread to nearby vegetation.

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Stephen Munson of Munson Realty makes a great point in his article below about "doing nothing or walking away" from your mortgage. Walking away is definitely not the answer, both from an integrity standpoint and a legal one too. For those of us in California, there are some serious implications, here's a l

Officers using a stun gun arrested a Shingletown man today after neighbors said he fired a rifle multiple times in their residential area.

Apparently under new EPA rules, biomass plants could be treated the same as green-house-gas-generating coal-fired power plants. This has Oregon's congressional delegation burning mad (the state is counting on turning forest thinnings into power and jobs). This article on the...

Today’s FDotD looks pretty tempting. Selling a house with a sparkling blue pool on a firecracker hot July day is… is… well, it’s easier than selling a home with a pool in the winter. Lately we’ve seen a few of the more clever institutional selle

Maybe bad hips run in our family. Fran had a hip replaced on her left side in November 1995. So when Tinker, our laid-back big cat started limping several days ago, we joked about his hip going out. Now, it seems, the bad joke may have backfired.

Trinity County’s Office of Emergency Services recently was awarded two disaster grants totaling more than $10,500 from a nonprofit charity group to help dogs and cats forced from their homes by forest fires or other disasters.

Traffic controls are being implemented near Oasis Road and Gold Hills Drive in north Redding due to a small vegetation fire.

Fire crews kept a vehicle-sparked wildfire to five acres this afternoon at Oregon Mountain Summit along Highway 299 near Weaverville.

A Redding Electric Utility “green box” malfunctioned this afternoon in West Redding malfunctioned and sparked a grass fire near hundreds of homes.

Jim Reed's campaign fires what appears to be its first shot across Rep. Wally Herger's bow: Jim Reed: Wally Herger Either Misunderstands or is Deliberately Distorting Financial Reform Legislation. Redding, California, July 15, 2010 - Banking bailouts have infuriated Democrats...

Firefighters are battling this afternoon a half-acre brush and timber fire off Hyampom Road near Two Bridges Road in Trinity County.

Anderson Fire Protection District board members mostly agreed with the Shasta County grand jury’s recommendations about their handling of the former fire chief’s resignation in a letter approved at their meeting Tuesday night.

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Anderson Fire Protection District board members agreed with the Shasta County Grand Jury's recommendations about their handling of the former fire chief's resignation in a letter approved at their meeting Tuesday evening.

COTTONWOOD - Firefighters contained this evening an 8 to 10-acre vegetation fire that destroyed two barns, a spokesman with the Cottonwood Fire Protection District said.

MONTGOMERY CREEK - Firefighters contained this evening a vegetation fire near Terry Mill Road that had threatened at least one home.