The National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWGC) defines wildfire containment as “the status of a wildfire suppression action ...

There's a chance the fires will over-take the second slot. See the full list of Top 20 fires, in terms of structures lost.

The two largest firestorms have already been ranked by state fire officials among California’s 20 most-damaging.

In terms of the largest wildfires in California history, the Palisades Fire does not rank very high. It torched 15,832 acres as of Wednesday. While that is certainly large, 17 California fires have ...

Past California fires have been much bigger than the ones burning Wednesday, but the damages will add up in Southern ...

LAKE TAHOE, Calif./Nev - The Tahoe Transportation District (TTD) is pleased to welcome Jason Burke, AICP, as its new Senior Transportation Planner.

One of the country’s most creative and fearless freeskiers has posted an eye-popping video of himself performing an almost unthinkable ski-BASE jump over Highway 50 outside of South Lake Tahoe. Josh ...

NV Energy is asking the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to allow it to establish a $500 million self-insurance fund in ...

This week we go back to 1979! Some fun facts about this week in '79: * The Village People's "YMCA" hit no. 1 on the single ...

Caldor Fire.  More than two years after the blaze sparked, destroying 221,835 acres and 1,000-plus structures, including most ...