Court: California Can Expand Insurance for Wildfire Areas July 22, 2021 By Adam Beam SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California’s insurance commissioner can order the “insurer of last resort” to offer more options for homeowners...
PG&E Seeks $3.6 Billion in Rate Hikes for Wildfire Safety July 2, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric asked regulators Wednesday to grant a $3.6 billion rate hike to help...
Summer Is Already Off to a Wild Start July 2, 2021 By Brian K Sullivan Extreme temperatures in China coupled with a lack of hydro-power forced blackouts in some of its largest industrial cities last...
California Tests Off-the-Grid Solutions to Power Outages July 1, 2021 By Daisy Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When a wildfire tore through Briceburg nearly two years ago, the tiny community on the edge...
Amid Clamor to Increase Prescribed Burns, Obstacles Await June 23, 2021 By Andrew Selsky SALEM, Ore. (AP) — In the 1950s, when University of California forestry professor Harold Biswell experimented with prescribed burns in...
Wind-Whipped Montana Fires Burn Structures, Spur Evacuations June 17, 2021 By Matthew Brown BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildfires burning in Montana have exploded in size, triggering evacuations and destroying an unknown number of...
Report: California Encourages Rebuilding in Fire-Prone Areas June 14, 2021 By Olga R. Rodriguez SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California state and local officials are encouraging rebuilding in areas destroyed by wildfires at a time...
Growing Arizona Wildfires Prompts New Evacuation Orders June 9, 2021 SUPERIOR, Ariz. (AP) — Crews made progress toward containing one of two major wildfires in south-central Arizona’s desert hill country,...
PG&E to Ante Up $150M for Botched Outages, Recent Wildfires May 28, 2021 By Michael Liedtke SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — Pacific Gas & Electric is getting hit with a nearly $150 million billion for neglect...
As Drought Intensifies, California Seeing More Wildfires May 26, 2021 By Don Thompson SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — As California sinks deeper into drought it already has had more than 900 additional wildfires than...