The administration is consolidating the federal response to wildfires across the West, shifting 3,900 firefighters to the Wildland Fire Service. The Trump administration’s new wildfire agency is ...

The Trump administration has taken the first steps in standing up its new, consolidated federal firefighting agency, despite Congress declining to fund it and voicing bipartisan reservations about the ...

A group of Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday asked Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to halt creation of a consolidated federal wildland fire service until he can explain how it improves on ...

Arizona’s senators and governor have raised questions about the initial firefighting tactics used against the wildfire that started July 4 with a lightning strike. The Interior Department on Wednesday ...

In a Senate hearing, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum admitted that flawed firefighting strategies worsened the Grand Canyon’s ...