1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1219+ words) KEARNY, Ariz. — Mayor Curtis Stacy starts every morning checking two websites that tell him how much he needs to worry about water. One site tells him about the reservoir that supplies his tiny desert town — it’s effectively empty. The other…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (310+ words) Backed by water tankers and a helicopter, firefighters on Sunday fought to contain a stubborn wildfire in Northern California that prompted officials to order evacuations. Authorities said they hadn’t yet pinpointed a cause for the Dove fire, which burned in…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (298+ words) A fourth firefighter has died from burns after he and several colleagues were overcome by a fast-moving wildfire near the Colorado-Utah border last month, officials said Saturday. Nathan Matthews, 43, of Lincoln, Neb., died Friday, the U.S. Interior Department said in a…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (345+ words) A retired Long Beach schoolteacher has been missing for four days in a rugged Mojave Desert off-roading area amid triple-digit temperatures, raising concerns about her well-being. Authorities and volunteers have conducted multiple searches for Julie Goforth, 63, who was last seen…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (222+ words) An Apple Valley woman who was pregnant with twins died in a crash Saturday. Lorena Lopez, 33, was driving north on Wichita Road when a man ran a stop sign at Zuni Road and broadsided her in the intersection, the San…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1265+ words) Three firefighters died on Sunday while battling an inferno along the Utah-Colorado border. They were fighting a group of fires that merged as high winds, low humidity and dry fuels created ideal conditions for the blaze, which has burned some…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (743+ words) In the days before wildfires raced up and down mountain slopes in the Southwest this past weekend, National Weather Service forecasters issued rare red flag warnings and said the weather conditions would be “extremely critical” across several states. “We knew…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1086+ words) Haggard and teary-eyed firefighters waited for the bodies to arrive on Sunday morning at Grand Junction Regional Airport in southwestern Colorado. They placed black stripes across their badges, symbolizing the loss of three firefighters from the blazes raging on the…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (425+ words) Three firefighters died Saturday and two were burned in a blaze sweeping the Utah-Colorado border, the U.S. Wildland Fire Service said in a statement. The crew was helping fight the Knowles and Gore wildfires, the statement said. Several agencies have deployed…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (538+ words) GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. — Visitors to Grand Canyon National Park are being warned about extreme heat that will plague the popular destination early next week after a recent increase in heat-related incidents in the inner canyon, including the deaths…...