“We move every day — we’re backpacking,” said Jackson Fitzsimmons, a Sierra National Forest wilderness ranger who lost his ...

Contra Costa County Supervisor Shanelle Scales-Preston will hold a town hall meeting Thursday evening on last month's Martinez Refining Company fire.

Our headline today comes to us courtesy of wilderness preservationist John Muir, via Debbie R. White’s new self-published book Mountain Escapades. It’s one of the epigrams that lead into her 50 ...

The Trump administration's plan to boost timber production on federal lands faces pushback about wildfires, environmental concerns and economics.

As Michael Hiltzik considered writing a new chronicle of California, he examined the region’s past five centuries in search of a fresh perspective. “I pitched it as a look at what California had ...

There’s something truly marvelous about visiting a national park. It’s a connection to something much larger than ourselves, ...

He also was influenced by the writings of John Muir, the legendary conservationist who founded the Sierra Club. What had inspired him to follow in Muir's path was the sudden realization that ...

Seniors at six high schools in the Pasadena area are going to prom for free. Actor Steve Carell made the announcement on Instagram for the charity Alice's Kids. Any student who's already paid for prom ...

Virginia charity Alice's Kids will pay for the prom tickets of about 800 high school seniors in the Altadena, California area, affected by the Eaton Fire.

Given the already compromised condition of our forestland and the ongoing climate crisis, it is no longer sustainable to privilege board feet over the other ecosystem services provided by healthy, ...

Steve Carell’s famous protagonist in The Office, Michael Scott, once promised children he’d pay for their college tuition ...

Actor Steve Carell is sending Southern California high school students affected by the devasting wildfires in Los Angeles to ...