The new maps are expected to expand the roughly 800,000 acres currently in local fire jurisdictions zoned as “very high” by an additional 247,000 acres. Some 1.16 million acres will be categor ...

California lawmakers want to employ 3,000 firefighters year-round to tackle wildfires Newsom ordered that within 45 days state officials must post a draft of the five-foot rule and hold a public ...

Victoria’s Municipality Court held a hearing ... at a business on South Laurent Street in regards to a structural fire two weeks ago. The future of these dogs remains in the balance as the ...

CAL FIRE's maps only showed a ring of “very high” red hazard in the wildlands next to Altadena, with the vast majority of the city unmarked. Entire blocks of homes in Altadena were destroyed ...

A Scottish highland bull named Waldo has been on the run through the town of Kent for several weeks after escaping a local farm. There will be a new interim police chief in Hartford starting ...

Five American-born men have earned the Victoria Cross, left ... and although rapid fire was directed upon him, and his clothes riddled with bullets he never faltered in his purpose and he not ...

Mr Battin’s Berwick electorate is close to the Country Fire Authority/Fire Rescue Victoria border in Melbourne’s southeast. He was previously critical of the rollout of the FRB. However ...

And, despite the maps becoming Californians’ go-to source for hazard information, Cal Fire stresses its directive from lawmakers was to determine where officials need to enforce often costly ...

Victoria has now welcomed 114 interstate firefighters and incident management team personnel and vehicles. Picture: Vic Emergency Ms Osborne said there was an elevated fire threat in western ...

David Nugent, Park Victoria’s director of fire, environment, land and water said terrain in the Grampians was making the fires particularly troublesome. “The landscape … it’s rocky ...