The Southeast accounted for more than one-third of U.S. wildfires last year, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), and nearly half in 2023.

Controversial legislation is moving through ... the overhead transmission lines will fragment unbroken forests in the wildlands for already declining bird species living inside forest interiors.

Kelli Stannard was holed up with her pets in her house on Buck Point Road when Monday’s severe thunderstorms moved overhead ... cut through the southwest forest area. Meteorologists are ...