A former Bay Area college professor pleaded guilty Friday to setting multiple fires while firefighters were combating the Dixie Fire in 2021. Federal authorities said 49-year-old Gary Stephen Maynard ...

A former college professor who specialized in social deviancy was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in prison for starting four fires in 2021, some of which threatened to trap firefighters ...

A former criminal justice professor will serve more than five years in prison for intentionally starting fires in the Shasta-Trinity and Lassen national forests in 2021, as firefighters battled the ...

A white-headed woodpecker stirs the dawn quiet, hammering at a patch of charred bark stretching 15 feet up the trunk of a ponderosa pine. The first streaks of sun light the tree’s green crown, sending ...

A Bay Area man and former California State University professor pleaded guilty on Thursday to setting fires near the Dixie Fire in 2021. According to a Feb. 1 news release from the U.S. Attorney’s ...

A coalition of timber companies has filed a lawsuit against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. seeking roughly $225 million in damages from a 2021 fire sparked by a utility power line. The complaint, filed ...

In July 2021, the Dixie Fire ignited, eventually burning more than 963,000 acres in Northern California before it was fully contained in October. In the end, it was the largest single source wildfire ...

Jan. 26 (UPI) --PG&E has agreed to pay a $45 million penalty to settle an action brought by California's public utilities regulator for its part in the Dixie Fire in 2021, which burned through five ...