In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes and dust clouds at Austin City Limits Music Festival. TikTok user Katy Mae posted a video showing dust particles whirling through ...

A county in California wine country is beefing up its vaccine recommendations and instituting a mask mandate, citing "greater risk" of contracting COVID-19 amid the start of the annual flu season. The ...

Meghan McCain is not backing down from her nepo baby criticisms of Violet Affleck, the daughter of Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, and the 19-year-old’s speech Tuesday at the United Nations General ...

CHICAGO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - In a chaotic scene at an immigration detention facility in the Chicago suburbs, Illinois Democratic candidates running for Congress said they were tear-gassed, shot with ...

A reporter’s questions pulled her into the subculture of wildland firefighting. Policy changes followed. Hannah Dreier, center, reporting on the Gifford fire in California in August.Credit...Loren ...

SAN DIEGO — A proposed California law banning law enforcement from wearing masks during most operations has been sent to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk for final approval. Senate Bill 627, also known as ...

LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Forest Service has announced it is reversing a ban on federal firefighters wearing masks and will give crews protective N95s as they battle increasingly intense fires across the ...

U.S. Forest Service firefighter Alan Gudino, right, shields his face while battling the Madre fire in San Luis Obispo County in July. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) The U.S. Forest Service has ...

The federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke. The U.S. Forest ...

The U.S. Forest Service will begin providing wildfire crews with masks to protect against smoke, reversing a decades-long policy banning protective gear after The New York Times spotlighted severe ...