"The district court had no general discretion to excuse civil contempt," Judge Neomi Rao wrote for the D.C. Circuit.

The fire was being fanned by strong, dry Santa Ana winds that were racing through the area, pushing a vast pall of smoke and dangerous embers ahead of the flames -- sparking fears that it could ...

The Hughes fire, burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita, exploded to more than 10,000 acres of mostly brush in just a few hours. More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders and ...

The latest blaze - dubbed the Hughes Fire - started late on Wednesday morning near Lake Castaic, around 40 miles from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that devastated parts of LA earlier this month.

Update: As of late Thursday morning, local authorities had lifted the remaining Ventura County evacuation warnings related to the Hughes Fire ... Air Pollution Control District issued an air ...

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...

Firefighters are battling a three-alarm blaze at an apartment complex in San Jose. The fire was reported at 1:55 p.m. Wednesday at a two-story apartment complex on the 2400 block of Los Gatos ...

Firefighters continue to make progress in containing the massive Hughes Fire that broke out Wednesday ... morning,” the Castaic Union School District wrote in a statement. Superintendent Bob ...

However, Reichert, who ran for District 4 San Diego County Board of Supervisors in 2023, was suspicious about the Lilac Fire and Pala Fire, which broke out earlier in the day. "The Pala Fire and ...

She is involved with the department’s hands-on EMS training and health and wellness committee. Previously, Funk served with the Elk Grove Township, IL, Fire Department. She holds a master’s ...

A fire at a hotel in a popular ski resort in Turkey has killed at least 76 people, the country's interior minister has said. Ali Yerlikaya added that at least 51 other people were injured in the ...