Shasta News

Shasta County sheriff's deputies arrested an Oregon fugitive at a Montgomery Creek campsite Saturday morning - a day and a half after authorities say he shot his girlfriend's 3-year-old daughter, then kept the ...

Ten minutes before the Hawaii Mars water bomber was to land at Lake Shasta, Calif., before a huge crowd of onlookers Thursday, owner Wayne Coulson got a call on his cellphone.

A courageous group of women raising awareness for The Breast Cancer Fund called it a "climb against the odds" Mt.

New evacuations were ordered as a fire expands in the mountains along the Big Sur coast.

A Canadian water bomber has joined the fight against California's wildfires. The aircraft landed at Lake Shasta near Redding Sunday.

Fire officials Friday warned residents in Monterey County near the Los Padres National Forest where the Basin Fire Complex is burning to prepare for mandatory evacuations this weekend.

Jim Gregg stands next to his "Lenticular Clouds Over Mt. Shasta" photograph during a reception June 18 at the Terrace's Bistro Gallery.

With thousands of acres blackened, fires blazing and a long fire season still ahead, the state has offered Lake Oroville as a landing spot for the world's largest flying boat.

Eight firefighters from the Cosumnes Community Services District Fire Department left today to help battle wildfires in Shasta County.

Cal Fire is keeping a close watch on the Motion Fire burning near Shasta Dam. The 5,000 acre blaze was burning toward the north and the dam, where a hydroelectric plant sends power out on transmission lines to ...

Jun 30, 2008 11:50 AM By SCOTT LINDLAW, AP A 450-acre wildfire caused the evacuation of 120 people from the town of about 400 scattered homes and summer cabins in the mountain community of Crown King, Ariz., ...

One of the words heard most about the coming switch to digital television is "deadline." That's because on Feb.

President Bush has issued an emergency declaration for California, where hundreds of lightning-caused wildfires have scorched more than 400 square miles.

Jun 28, 2008 5:25 AM By TERENCE CHEA, AP Brandon Hoefs, of Nebraska, a member of the Mid Plains Interagency fire crew, turns away from a wildfire as it nears the deck of a home on Partington Ridge Rd.

Firefighters bolstered their defenses Friday against an expanding wildfire that threatened coastal homes in this storied tourist town, while bracing for fresh lightning strikes that could ignite new fires ...

Firefighters scrambled Wednesday to tame a lightning-sparked wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest that already burned 16 homes and is moving closer to the scenic community of Big Sur, where it threatens ...

Officials say firefighters are making gains against some wildfires today. But hundreds more fires are blazing across Northern California.

Rescuers were searching Mount Shasta on Monday for two hikers reported missing over the weekend.

Hundreds of wildfires sparked by lightning flared Sunday across the heart of wine country and remote forests in Northern California, the latest batch of destructive blazes in the bone-dry state.

Thunderstorms sparked as many as 400 fires around Northern California, as officials farther south got close to containing a blaze that destroyed several homes and forced thousands to evacuate.