Fires are tied to the history of the pine barrens, now at 105,000 acres, down from what experts believe at one time was a quarter of a million acres.

The fishing vessel said the body came up in the fishing nets around 40 miles off of the Massachusetts coast, the DA said. The ...

Firefighters in New York have knocked down a dwindling brush fire in a wooded stretch of Long Island but officials say high wind gusts could leave the region vulnerable to additional blazes.

There is an investigation into possible arson after firefighters knocked down the last of four wildfires that began in ...