The incinerated town of Lahaina has barely begun to recover. Policymakers have scrambled to ease inflexible laws and regulations but rebuilding would be happening much more quickly if that had ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act on June 11 for the Rowena Fire west of The Dalles, Ore., in the Columbia River Gorge. The fire, which started […] ...

The governor of Oregon invoked the Emergency Conflagration Act on Wednesday evening for a wildfire burning in the Columbia River Gorge in Wasco County. Officials issued Level 3 (Go Now) evacuation ...

The true story of how a rainstorm at a U.S. Marine encampment led to a deadly conflagration.

On October 13, 1973, a devastating fire broke out in Chelsea, Massachusetts, fueled by high winds and dry conditions. The blaze ignited in a wood-frame warehouse, quickly spreading to nearby ...

A look back at Hollywood’s prophecy of its conflagration. It’s been 50 years since John Schlesinger’s film The Day of the Locust, based on the novel by Nathanael West, predicted “the ...

Douglas: What sparked the conflagration in L.A.? The wildfire disaster puts our cold and upcoming 2-4 inches of snow into perspective.

The resurrection of Notre Dame de Paris and the massive effort it has taken to achieve it are powerful signs that many of us are still attached to Judeo-Christian Western values.

Gov. Kotek invokes Conflagration Act for 17th time this year to help battle the Service Fire in Wheeler County ...

Oregon Governor Tina Kotek has signed the Conflagration Act for the Service Fire in Wheeler County. Officials say the lightning-sparked fire has grown to an est ...