The Jennings Creek wildfire is now 90% contained since it started burning last week, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service says.

Three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or no working alarms, but Consumer Reports has ...

OUR NEXT FIRST ALERT: A cold front will move through the area on Wednesday and Thursday. This will bring our next First Alert ...

An air quality alert has been issued for New York City, the Hudson Valley and northern New Jersey through 12 a.m. Monday due ...

Kristin Hannah's new best-selling historical novel, "The Women," is shining an overdue spotlight on Vietnam War nurses. Two ...

Paul Karp As we flagged earlier, the ABC has reported that four foreign nationals were found on remote Croker Island in the Northern Territory yesterday. The four foreign nationals are no longer ...

Firefighters made progress over the last day at containing the huge Mountain Fire in Ventura County, California, which has destroyed dozens of homes.

A relatively new device developed by a Maryland-based company can prevent devastating home electrical fires — and many ...

The sprawling PST festival of more than 70 exhibitions doesn’t quite live up to its theme of art and science colliding. But ...

A convenience store worker was taken to hospital after a shooting in central Edmonton Thursday afternoon. Stadium Mini Mart ...

The mayor of Lachine said she wants police to open an investigation after a bronze statue of a young boy was dismembered in a ...