Rural areas near California's border with Oregon were under evacuation orders Wednesday after gusty winds from a thunderstorm sent a lightning-sparked wildfire racing through national forest lands ...

An extremely dangerous, unusually long heat wave is intensifying and spreading up the West Coast – and there will be no relief for days. California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Arizona are ...

Visitors can learn more about its gold mining past at the North Star Mining Museum and Empire Mine State Historic Park, the site of the former Empire Mine, which operated from 1850-1956 and ...

Climate change, fishing, and commercial shipping top the list of threats to the ocean off the West Coast of the United States. "Every single spot of the ocean along the West Coast," said Ben Halpern, ...