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Commentary: Forty years ago, the 1984 L.A. Games proved host cities can win at the Olympics
Los Angeles Times· 17 hours agoBy the time Gina Hemphill approached Rafer Johnson with a burning Olympic torch in the Los Angeles...
California fire scorches through land the size of Los Angeles as blazes burn across U.S. West
CTV News· 1 day agoThousands of firefighters were battling a wildfire in northern California on Saturday that exploded ...
Park Fire Now Seventh-Largest In California History, More Than 300K Acres Burned – Update
Deadline via Yahoo Canada News· 9 hours agoSUNDAY UPDATE: The Park fire in Northern California has now burned more than 350,000 acres. The fire...
Crews battle wildfires across the US West and fight to hold containment lines
Toronto Star· 10 hours agoWildfires across the western United States and Canada put millions of people under air quality...
Jaw-dropping satellite video shows Park fire burning from space
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 4 hours agoA man was arrested on suspicion of arson Thursday after officials say he pushed a burning car down a gully in Chico, an action that investigators say triggered calamity. This ...
Park fire flares up as crews scramble to contain 350,000-acre blaze
LA Times via Yahoo Canada News· 11 hours agoThe race between the weather and the firefight will continue in the days ahead, Tracy said. "If the ...
California’s Park Fire is now bigger than Phoenix while in Canada a blaze is scorching one of the...
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 1 day agoCalifornia’s largest wildfire of the year has burned an area larger than the size of the entire city...
I moved from Connecticut to California. I loved it, but felt so relieved when I returned to New...
Business Insider via Yahoo Canada News· 15 hours agoIt was very rare to find any sense of escape or solitude in the immediate area. Traffic...stress...
Will the Seine be ready for Olympic swimming? With dry weather and a little luck
New York Times· 3 days agoBeing a veteran world-class swimmer — and cyclist, and runner — Taylor Spivey has dealt with worse...
Fires in the West are becoming ever bigger. Why and what can be done?
Lake Cowichan Gazette· 8 hours agoDecades of snuffing out fires at the first sign of smoke combined with climate change have laid the...