Cody Smeaton, a call firefighter for Westport, is currently deployed to Alaska. He joins a crew from DCR and MassWildlife fighting wildfires in the state's interior. A Westport firefighter is among a ...

Local firefighters have been sent to Alaska to battle a significant wildfire in the far northwestern state as part of a ...

Cooler, wetter weather is helping slow wildfire growth across Alaska, but smoke and evacuation alerts remain in effect as ...

A cultural burn in Fort Yukon, Alaska in May 2024. The wildland fire community, along with governments, policy makers, and ...

Twenty-nine homes, along with 34 other structures, have been lost in the fires near Healy since they began last month, ...

The 2,000-acre fire and others north of the Brooks Range fit a pattern of increasing wildfires in the treeless landscape.

A warmer world is expected to bring more thunderstorms, especially at higher latitudes. Scientists are now reporting a ...

The thing about the “United States” is that — until recently — it was part of our national ethos to look after one another.

The race for a commissioner’s seat on one of the largest fire districts in Spokane is underscored by a critical issue – ...

Fires near Fairbanks and Healy are destroying homes and fouling the air, and cut into some visitor-dependent businesses along the Parks Highway over the normally busy Fourth of July weekend. Alaska's ...

As wildfires continue to ignite and burn across Alaska's Interior, warm weather in Southcentral Alaska over the July Fourth weekend contributed to several small blazes within the Municipality of.