This is a developing story. Check back to sanluisobispo.com for updates. To get breaking news alerts, click here Firefighters battled a late-night blaze along Prefumo Canyon Road outside of San Luis Obispo on Thursday night. According to Cal Fire, the fire was reported in the area of 4300 Prefumo Canyon Road. As of 11:50 p.m., […]
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Firefighters are battling a vegetation fire in Ocotillo Sunday that is threatening a nearby highway. Cal Fire reports the Inkopah 5 Fire broke out at 11:15 a.m. Sunday on InKoPah Park Road near I-8 in Ocotillo, close to the border with San Diego and Imperial counties, and just north of […]
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Firefighters in Southern California are working to contain a growing vegetation fire that has spread across the U.S.-Mexico border. One of many that have broken out throughout California just this weekend, the wildfire — dubbed the Border 53 Fire — has continued to grow in size since it started Saturday afternoon. […]
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Firefighters stopped the spread of a grass fire and a large burning structure in California City on Thursday. On May 9, Kern County Fire Department units were dispatched to a large building on fire at 32929 Neuralina Road. Firefighters arrived on scene just after 12:30 a.m., and found a 4,200 square-foot […]
“Season” in Southwest Florida means a bevy of activities in our coastal communities. Chief among them: beach trips. The beach is one of our most celebrated natural resources, and rightly so. We know beaches as tourist magnets and economic drivers. But we less often consider the beach as habitat, a wildlife corridor spanning over 800 […]
To reach its climate goals, the U.S. will need to build solar arrays on some 15,000 square miles of land, an area larger than Maryland. Growing native plants at these sites could give a much-needed boost to imperiled insects, a new study finds. For the research, scientists at the Argonne National Laboratory and the National […]
Jan. 9—MORGANTOWN — The state Public Service Commission announced on Tuesday that it has approved a rate hike for FirstEnergy sisters Mon Power and Potomac Edison to continue their Vegetation Management Program. The order, filed Monday, approves a joint stipulation and settlement agreement filed Nov. 28. The settlement approves an increase of $16, 949, 685 […]