Smoke and ash from urban wildfires, like those in Los Angeles, may put people at risk of short- and long-term health problems ...

A number of states are seeing a spike in hospital visits caused by respiratory illnesses as we enter the New Year.

San Francisco health officials said Friday that a presumptive case of H5N1 bird flu had been identified in a San Francisco ...

After burning for 60 days and dropping into the Tahoe Basin within that time, the Caldor Fire reached 100% containment on Oct ...

Doctors with CHI Health say their hospitals and urgent care facilities are seeing rising cases of a number of respiratory ...

The most recent CDC hospitalization data and other indicators show that the flu virus is trending higher than the other germs, Reed said. Several seasonal flu strains are driving cases ...

The Hazmat alert, issued by Department of Fire and Emergency Services on Thursday afternoon, says “unknown chemicals” have been spilled at the back of a commercial complex between Mill Point Road and ...

The CDC estimates that there have been at least 3.1 million illnesses, 37,000 hospitalizations and 1,500 deaths from flu so far this season; these figures are based on the latest date for which ...

“Overall, CDC considers the risk to the general public associated with the ongoing U.S. HPAI A(H5N1) outbreak has not changed and remains low,” said the CDC. Farmers and producers are always ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified mutations in the the first severe bird flu case in the US ...

The CDC said the patient's sample showed mutations in the hemagglutinin (HA) gene, the part of the virus that plays a key role in it attaching to host cells. The health body said the risk to the ...

Hazmat units and first responders narrowly escaped what could've been a fatal fire. "Upon arriving on scene, fire units found a storage unit out back, a small storage unit behind the facility ...