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Thousands of people paid their respects to a Vermont firefighter Saturday who died earlier this month while battling a wildfire in Great Basin National Park in Nevada.
Populations of a rabbit-like animal known as the American pika are vanishing in many mountainous areas of the West as climate change alters its habitat, according to findings released Thursday by the U.S. Geological Survey.
The family of an Arizona shooting range instructor who was accidentally killed by a 9-year-old girl with an Uzi has sued the business, alleging it should not have allowed a child to use the high-powered weapon.
By Wednesday afternoon, authorities still could not say how many houses had been destroyed by the fast-moving wildfire, but they prepared communities along Interstate 15 through Cajon Pass for bad news. The northbound lanes of the critical transportation artery connecting Southern California with Southern Nevada were reopened late Wednesday.
The closure of Interstate 15 as a result of the Blue Cut Fire has cut off the most direct and convenient route between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
A new wildfire spread Tuesday at a staggering pace through drought-parched canyons east of Los Angeles, growing to 10 square miles in a matter of hours and forcing the shutdown of a section of Interstate 15, the main highway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas.
Thousands of people in southern Louisiana hunkered down in shelters Monday, forced out of their homes by intense flooding that took many people by surprise.
The race is on in Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Maine and elsewhere to get President Barack Obama to preserve millions of acres as national monuments before he leaves office.
Officials say they have recovered the body of a woman from inside a flooded vehicle.