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Warm temperatures have Californians again bracing for wildfires. But to better prepare, the residents of Ventura say they need a clearer picture of what went wrong in the destructive 2017 Thomas Fire.

In its first two years, 40 people have been killed on tracks by the passenger line. Florida officials are concerned, but Brightline says suicides and people using drugs make up most of the deaths.

A year after Tennessee lawmakers forbade cities like Memphis and Nashville from enacting local bans on plastic grocery bags, a new Republican-led...

"In some ways we're better," says activist Melissa Mays. "In other ways, we're forever poisoned, damaged, traumatized ... that's not gonna ever be better."

Alex Weber discovered more than 50,000 balls in the ocean near coastal California golf courses. When golf balls degrade, as these were doing, they release plastic particles and toxic chemicals.

Archaeologists and historians announce that they've identified at least two sites consistent with mass graves in Tulsa, site of race riots in 1921 that had been pushed to the margins of history.

As a leader of the Patriot Movement, the Republican representative "planned, engaged in, and promoted a total of three armed conflicts of political violence against the United States government."

A new study finds that turtles are really good at carrying the bacteria that cause the potentially fatal disease.

Former Little Rock police Lt. David Hudson told a federal jury Tuesday that he took the only safe option available. That, he said, is why he repeatedly...

Identifying where ice melts can help cities in planning for a future with elevated sea levels. In New York City, the sea level would be affected more by melting ice in northern Greenland than Canada.