President-elect Donald Trump has picked a prominent vaccine skeptic to lead the nation’s sprawling public health apparatus.

After almost one whole week, the Jennings Creek Wildfire had been 75% contained on Thursday, Nov. 14, officials said. The ...

Officials say 41% of the wildfire on the border of New York and New Jersey is now contained, but that residents in the Greenwood Lake area will see more smoke and flames in the next 48 hours as part ...

Though rain has fallen across New York in recent days and more precipitation is expected, climatologists predict the ...

Fire officials are also investigating a possible link between that fire, which occurred on Oct. 30 and took days to ...

New Jersey’s governor declared a drought warning. Black Hawk helicopters scooped water from a lake to dump on a burning ...

Derry, Pennsylvania Township police said Zachary Bautz, 28, of Maple Shade, New Jersey, died when his box truck veered off ...

A fire is burning along the New Jersey-New York border as an emergency drought warning emerges. CBS News' Tom Hanson has the ...

Firefighters are working to extinguish a brush fire burning in Inwood Hill Park in upper Manhattan. Dry conditions in New ...

SAN FRANCISCO — This week, 49 states are experiencing “moderate drought or worse,” according to the U.S. government. That ...

Dry conditions in the Northeast are worsening, creating a scenario for fire danger in the region to persist, an updated map ...