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A Reno resident born in Maui is raising funds to help family and friends following devastating wildfires.

Lawmakers, conservationists, and Lake Tahoe residents from both Nevada and California gathered at Kings Beach for the 27th annual Lake Tahoe Summit.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending nearly $200 million to reduce wildfire risk to communities nationwide, including many parts of the Mountain West.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is spending more than $490 million to reduce wildfire risk in the West.

A new study reveals that publicly traded companies in the West rarely disclose risks posed by wildfires in their federal filings.

Wildfires are growing larger and more destructive across the West due to climate change. Yet more people than ever are moving to fire-prone spaces near forests and grasslands. Some of the fastest housing growth in these areas is happening in the Mountain West.

Smoke blew into Nevada in Sept., sending air pollution to hazardous levels. People could increasingly face such risks as climate change makes wildfires more frequent.

A new study shows wildfires are burning more high-elevation areas, and that’s impacting the snowpack across the West.

Read news headlines for Friday, August 5, 2022.

A panel of fire science experts convened at the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno to discuss the extent of the devastation caused by climate-driven wildfires and their predictions for the 2022 fire season.