On clear days, you can see snowy Mount Hood, the highest mountain in Oregon (at 11,239 feet), from Portland. Mount Hood is the region's prime skiing area, with numerous powdery downhill and cross ...

The state has long relied on incarcerated people to help fight wildfires in California, which are burning hotter and faster as the climate crisis intensifies. But prison reform activists have ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A humanitarian team from Mexico, deployed to fight the fires burning in Southern California, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday afternoon. Gov.

Here are some of the tankers that have helped fight the fires in California in recent years. The large air tankers can carry a much larger load than the smaller Cal Fire tankers. The diagram below ...

California is one of more than a dozen states that operates conservation camps, commonly known as fire camps, for incarcerated people to train to fight fires and respond to other disasters.

Nearly 800 prison inmates have been temporarily freed to assist firefighters in controlling the deadly Southern California wildfires that have burned with no end in sight since Tuesday.

California strived to maintain its environmental leadership in 2024, with voters approving a $10 billion environmental bond and the state advancing its renewable energy goals — all while ...

A reporter went head-to-head with the Democratic speaker of the California Assembly about whether ... legislative session on allocating money to fight Trump in a way that you could already do ...

in 2013. California currently has about 400 prisoner firefighters battling the LA county wildfires. (Jae C. Hong/AP) This story originally appeared on NPR. Nearly 800 incarcerated people are among the ...