From a pipeline expansion to a bear breaking into someone’s house, here are the 10 most-read stories of 2025.

The Vernon Fire Rescue Services (VFRS) team had a busy 2025, but calls were slightly down compared to last year.

Dozens of people are presumed dead and about 100 injured following a fire at a Swiss Alps bar during a New Year’s celebration ...

British Columbia's 2025 wildfire season was about a third as destructive as the record-setting season two years earlier.

The Years of Service awards were presented to Commissioners Bright and Peeples - 45yrs; DC Webb, Eng Portela, Lt Calcorzi - ...

WASHINGTON (KTVZ) -- Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Friday he and Senate colleagues are demanding information from the Trump administration about how many hazardous fuels projects that have completed ...

Firefighters with the U.S. Forest Service gather to pray on Jan. 15, 2025, in Altadena amid deadly wildfires that raged across the Los Angeles area. (Photo by John Locher/Associated Press) President ...

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Brian Fennessy, Chief of Orange County Fire Authority. Photo by Bill Gabbert. Brian Fennessy has told his colleagues at the Orange County Fire Authority that he is retiring as head of the agency in ...

A new analysis making the rounds on Capitol Hill says the U.S. Forest Service sharply scaled back prescribed burns, thinning and other fuel-reduction work this year, leaving far fewer acres treated ...

Crews take a break from wildfire mitigation work near Silverthorne to pose for a photo during February 2024. Federal legislators are raising concerns that cuts to the U.S. Forest Service staffing ...

Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to correct a typo in the headline. Federal legislators are raising concerns that cuts to the U.S. Forest Service staffing under President Donald Trump’s ...