As summer approaches and beachgoers flock to the coast, environmental groups are warning that the sand at many of Los Angeles’ most popular beaches may not be safe. After the Palisades Fire burned ...

The New Jersey man charged with sparking a wildfire that ravaged parts of Ocean County attempted to deny responsibility, blaming it instead on two “Mexicans” he could not name, police ...

Robert P. Lamb, a lifelong public servant and third-generation resident of Lavallette, New Jersey, died on May 2 at the age ...

In the latest news concerning the giant wildfire in Ocean County, the teen accused, Joseph Kling (19), will be released from ...

Prosecutors say that Kling picked up 10 to 20 wooden pallets from a recycling center and drove them into the woods, and used gasoline on two pallets to start the fire, and then eventually the rest of ...

Crews are crediting the half-inch of rain that fell over the southern region of the fire over the weekend. More passing rain on Monday may also help containment efforts, officials added.

A UC Santa Cruz undergraduate student drowned after jumping off a cliff along West Cliff Drive in Santa Cruz, despite rescue ...

The boat was found around 6:30 a.m. Monday. Four survivors were found and seven people were thought to be missing.

Kling is charged with igniting flames that by Tuesday morning grew to the point that a spotter in the Cedar Bridge Fire Tower ...