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A group of Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday asked Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to halt creation of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images) The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland ...

The 11 senators and representatives - all Democrats - said that the consolidation of four Department of Interior agencies’ wildfire programs is being done “without adequate analysis, transparency, or ...

Wildland firefighters are willing to wear respirators and other protective breathing equipment despite concerns the devices could hinder their ability to fight fires safely, according to new research ...

Immigration attorneys are demanding federal officials release a wildland firefighter arrested last month on the Olympic Peninsula. Lawyers for the Portland-based Innovation Law Lab and the Northwest ...

The state-funded universal representation program has seen a 4,000% increase in demand and is at risk of exhausting funds, ...

Zoe Treibitz, 24, who has worked as an emergency wildland firefighter with the Kentucky Division of Forestry, speaks about concerns over low pay and high turnover among firefighters, Sept. 10, 2025.

Shane Del Grosso spent some 30 summers crossing smoke-shrouded mountains and forests to fight increasingly devastating wildfires in the U.S. West. Toward the end, his skills and experience propelled ...

A lone monitoring station on the Laramie Range is reading just 3% of its normal snowpack. That's a number that explains why, 40 miles down the road ...

The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they want to — something Washington’s state wildland firefighters have been able to ...