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California fire victims seek housing in tight, pricey market

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Raj Sodhi, his wife, Lucia Cascio and their 11-year-old twins turned into nomads for more than three weeks after a wildfire gutted their California wine country home – l...

DATE: Nov 2, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

House OKs bill to speed logging to combat wildfires

WASHINGTON – Responding to deadly wildfires in California and the West, House Republicans on Wednesday passed a bill to allow faster approval for logging and other actions to reduce the risk...

DATE: Nov 1, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

California wildfire insurance claims top $3.3 billion

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Property damage claims from a series of deadly October wildfires now exceed $3.3 billion, California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said Tuesday. The figur...

DATE: Oct 31, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Full recovery from California wildfires may take years

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – It will take at least months and likely years to fully recover from devastating wildfires that ripped through Northern California earlier this month, destroying at least...

DATE: Oct 29, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

GOP targets environmental rules after wildfires

WASHINGTON – House Republicans are targeting environmental rules to allow faster approval for tree cutting in national forests in response to the deadly wildfires in California. M...

DATE: Oct 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Congress gives the go-ahead on another round of disaster relief funding

Nearly $600 million to be used specifically to pay back the costs of fighting 2017 fires

DATE: Oct 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Local News

Bipartisan Senate bill aims to prevent Western wildfires

WASHINGTON – As wildfires rage across California and the West, Democratic and Republican senators have joined forces to help rural communities better prepare for and prevent catastrophic wil...

DATE: Oct 19, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Wildfires worsen housing crunch in famously costly Bay Area

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – Even before fire wiped out the home she rented for 17 years, Suzanne Finzell had thought about leaving this city on the edge of the San Francisco Bay Area because of ris...

DATE: Oct 18, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Californians head back home to altered lives, communities

PETALUMA, Calif. – Some have lost loved ones. Many have survived near-death experiences. Others have lost their homes and a lifetime of possessions. A week after fleeing raging wi...

DATE: Oct 17, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Better weather gives leg up to crews on California wildfires

SANTA ROSA, Calif. – The winds eased, some of the smoke began to clear and the forecast Monday offered a tantalizing chance of rain to firefighters trying to corral the blazes that have laid...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

Portugal wildfires kill at least 35; 4 dead in Spain

LISBON, Portugal – Late season wildfires that broke out over the weekend in Portugal have killed at least 35 people, including a 1-month-old infant, authorities said Monday, making 2017 by f...

DATE: Oct 16, 2017 | CATEGORY: Nation & World

U.S., states struggle to pay spiraling cost of fighting fires

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The long and brutal 2017 wildfire season is stressing the state and federal agencies that have to pay for the army of ground crews and machinery required to fight them. ...

DATE: Oct 15, 2017 | CATEGORY: Regional News