Sam Forstag injected new energy into national efforts to change how the Democratic Party tries to compete in solidly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. May 5—Randall "Ran" Crone used to split his time between Hawaii and Alaska, but life as a smokejumper took him to Missoula where ...

Top progressives endorsed Forstag, who could be Democrats’ next blue-collar sensation.

Big wildfires like the York fire in California and the blaze in Lahaina, Hawaii, have been big news stories recently. But there are many more fires that never make the headlines, and that's sometimes ...

WINTHROP, Wash. - Kristy Longanecker smiled while her husband fell from the clear blue sky. "He got to live his dream," said Longanecker, barely bothering to watch. "I'm envious of that sometimes. How ...

Climatologists are predicting an active fire season after a dry winter. Firefighters around the west are standing ready. That ...

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Back when Mark Corbet started out as a smokejumper, his parents would ask him when he planned to get a real job. Twenty-nine years later, at age 52, Corbet is one of the oldest smokejumpers in the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Wildland firefighter Grant Davis is called to fight some of the most remote fires in the US – but to reach them, he must first jump out of a plane. Olympic – est 1938 Washington Grant Davis, ...

Sept. 29--PRAIRIE -- Mark T. Urban -- known as "a smokejumper's smokejumper" -- died Friday when his parachute malfunctioned during a training jump. Urban, who was with the Boise-based Great Basin ...