Pictures accompanying Professor John Abatzoglou’s presentation on the 2025 fire season were blurry. That was intentional, he ...

For these UC students, hands-on research has led to class credit, money for school and a path to their dream future.

The Argo program collects data vital to global weather forecasting and developing seasonal scale forecasts like El Niño and La Niña, for producing drought forecasts across the U.S., and for mapping ...

A new prescribed burn, named Morehinge March, was initiated today at 10:10 a.m. in Merced County. The prescribed fire has ...

But do they need more protection? But as the total number of owls dwindles, the state is weighing more decisive action. In October, the California Fish and Game Commission voted to consider ...

In early March, the Iditarod had to move the race to the northern route, while the Alaska Division of Forestry & Fire Protection (DOF) declared an early wildland fire season in its Coastal Region ...

The University of California, Merced campus is shown in a file photo. 33,400 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you solve it faster than others?33,400 people played the daily ...

Kelly Seyarto, R-Murrieta, introduced a proposal to shift seasonal firefighting positions with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ... funding for the University of ...

Hernandez, 34, escaped from custody on Dec. 2, 2024, shortly after arriving at the Kern County Superior Courthouse in Delano, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

California wildfires, including those triggered by lightning, are a fact of life. But what happened in the Roaring Twenties was among the most bizarre events in state fire history. On the morning ...

Q: What would be done with the $75 million in state budget if the forestry department were eliminated? A: I said that because we were getting no answers. It took us three weeks. So we had to fire ...