Initial location: Mariposa County, Calif. West Fire initially started 5:11 p.m. July 1 in Mariposa County, California.

Near a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo sat a temporary pond, doomed to dry up eventually. Inside swam a “rainbow” creature with “large” yellow eyes. Something about it caught the ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 9:51 a.m. in Trinity County, California. 6-8 Fire has been burning on federal land ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 10:09 a.m. in Fresno County, California. Kamm Fire has been burning on private land. At ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 9:48 a.m. in Siskiyou County, California. Fowlers Fire has been burning on federal land ...

Brown is being hired to replace Tom Thibodeaux, who was fired after the Knicks lost to the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern ...

The San Francisco-based company is known for staging large-scale fireworks displays across California and the U.S.

A fourth grade teacher sexually assaulted a girl in a classroom while another student was posted in the hall as a lookout, ...

Two lottery players won big in Maryland and will split the prize, officials said. The lucky winners hit a jackpot worth $1.8 million in the June 30 Multi-Match drawing, the Maryland Lottery said in a ...

A venomous cottonmouth is giving people the willies on social media, after a video recorded by an Alabama biologist showed the snake was caught blending in perfectly with ground cover. Cottonmouths, ...

Investigators learned Matthew Hill, 59, was riding in the truck bed while holding a camouflage hunting blind. Witnesses told ...

A 19-year-old was arrested in the accidental shooting that killed his teen brother, New Mexico officials said. On June 27, ...