The fire began Sept. 2 and wasn’t fully contained until Sept. 13. The future of a historic Black community in Northern California remains uncertain after a ferocious fire last month devastated much of ...

Environmental scientist Marie Massa has spent three years transforming a long, weedy strip of trash-filled public land into a fragrant native plant garden on Avenue 20, which she's named the Lincoln ...

Prior to the devastating Mill Fire that tore through Siskiyou County on Friday afternoon, the small town of Weed had something most places in rural Northern California don’t: a historically Black, ...

Nancy Smith remembered that children had called it “the sick land” — the wedge of property alongside the 110 Freeway where a dry cleaning facility had laundered aprons and uniforms for decades across ...

When the Mill Fire tore through the Northern California town of Weed, it not only claimed the lives of two residents and destroyed dozens of homes, it laid waste to a little-known but historically ...

Torched cars sit amid the cinders and ash that remain from the Lincoln Heights neighborhood below the Roseburg Forest Products lumber mill and Mount Shasta in Weed, California. The Mill Fire destroyed ...

The Lincoln Heights community endured for decades, despite segregation, economic hardship and a pandemic. Then came the Mill fire. When the Mill fire ripped through Weed, Calif., just before Labor Day ...

Residents wake up to freshly dumped trash, puddles of urine and human feces. Business owners complain of blocked driveways that prevent employees from driving home at the end of their shifts. “On ...