Dozens of New Mexico firefighters returned home this week after helping with the massive efforts to contain the wildfires in southern California that have killed at least two dozen people and destroyed thousands of homes and other buildings,

Mauricio Arellano, superintendent of the San Bernardino City Unified School District, which co-sponsored the Wednesday, Jan. 22, event, told the crowd of about 50 that all children in the U.S. have a right to a free public education — regardless of immigration status.

After a near-snowless winter for southern Cali, a storm will bring powder to areas near Los Angeles and rainfall to the coastal regions and burn scars.

Firefighters are battling a new brush fire that erupted in San Diego County near the U.S.-Mexico border, as they also race to contain the Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake.

President Donald Trump is criticizing California water policy as he prepares to tour wildfire damage in Los Angeles.

“Despite being smack in the middle of the rainy season, brush conditions over Southern California are currently as dry as they ever get in the summer (the dry season),” AccuWeather California Expert Ken Clark said. “So when you throw dry air and Santa Ana winds into the mix, you have prime ingredients for wildfires.”

More than 220 million people across the United States are facing dangerous cold that will also open the door for a potentially historic and crippling winter storm that could deliver snow as far south as Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.

Hughes fire totals more than 10,000 acres as new blaze breaks out near U.S.-Mexico border - As firefighters battle the Hughes fire, the Border 2 blaze rages in San Diego near the U.S.-Mexico border, p

President Donald Trump issued a host of executive orders on his first day, aiming to reverse many of former President Joe Biden’s policies and kick-start his own “America First” agenda.

A fee restructuring gives New Mexicans free day-use access from October through April. Here are some nearby state parks to explore.

All the talk about attaching conditions to California’s federal disaster aid have placed the state’s Republican members of Congress in a quandary.

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