Letter to the editor To the editor: My family is looking for a house. After months of searching, we found two houses in our desired school area - both looked perfect, but weren't. In one - we stood in the front yard on a warm summer day, imagining playing Frisbee there with our daughter.

Letter to the editor To the editor: My family is looking for a house. After months of searching, we found two houses in our desired school area - both looked perfect, but weren't. In one - we stood in the front yard on a warm summer day, imagining playing Frisbee there with our daughter.

... victory in the Iraq war, drew widespread scorn for his suggestion that a small spark of liberty could ignite a wildfire of democracy in that part of the world. And yet the "Arab spring" and the ensuing summer of revolution have cast Bush's "freedom ...

Translated, that means "If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you." It is a great - no, perfect - setup for all the wonderful Pure Michigan TV commercials extolling the beauties of our state.

... firefighters fighting the blaze. Yet, longtime residents of this area who have seen the kind of devastation that a wildfire can cause know that it could have been much worse. In 2007, the Angora Fire in South Lake Tahoe burned 3,100 acres but ...

Editor's Note. I'm on vacation this week, so I thought I'd reach into the archives for this week's column.

... Oregon Department of Forestry. Backyard debris burning, equipment use and campfires left unattended top the list of wildfire causes every year. Increased wildfire prevention awareness can bring down the incidence of these "people fires" and free up ...

... have no stake in the future opportunities of their country. Protests that started off in Tottenham have spread like wildfire to Croydon, Ealing, central London and now to Birmingham, Liverpool, Ilford and other cities. While it may be easy to ...

... that water will warm, and then we really have to watch the Atlantic. << More heat and lightning than rain increases wildfire threat 664 of 664 Average: 0

THE STATE'S new fee of as much as $150 per year for property owners who live on the edge of wildfire-prone areas shouldn't come as a huge surprise.

THE STATE'S new fee of as much as $150 per year for property owners who live on the edge of wildfire-prone areas shouldn't come as a huge surprise.

... in 11 years, approached 160,000 acres. In 1977, the 15,444-acre La Mesa Fire, also near Los Alamos, was the largest wildfire in New Mexico to that date. It was a wake-up call, both because it was readily visible from Albuquerque and because its ...

Our thoughts continue to be with the firefighters who are battling the forest fires sweeping across the region.

MILL VALLEY leaders deserve to take credit for the city's longstanding commitment to fire prevention and emergency preparedness.

... team a few of us had put together, making him a pitcher and leadoff hitter. Peter played a lot of games for the Wildfire team over the course of a few summers, and watching him move around the bases then was probably like watching Brett Gardner or ...

the young woman who initiated the civil uprising currently sweeping Israel like a wildfire - has said that citizens need not know the answers to the problems they are protesting. She has asked the politicians to come up with the solutions themselves. ...

AFTER a couple of seasons marred by high winds and high water, the province's premier distance-hiking trail is open from top to bottom once again.