The Department of the Interior is standing up a new, unified wildland firefighting entity, despite a lack of funding and some ...

Interior says it is only restructuring internally, though it is still working toward Trump's goal of an interagency merger.

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum on Jan. 12 signed an order establishing the U.S. Wildland Fire Service, ...

Congress has balked at the Trump administration's push to move firefighting responsibilities from the Forest Service to ...

BILLINGS, Montana — President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single agency, a move some former federal officials warn could ...

The United States Department of the Interior on Monday officially announced the launch of the “U.S. Wildland Fire Service,” an effort by the department to unify the wildfire-fighting resources of ...

BOISE, Idaho — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is calling for a new wildfire-fighting strategy that protects a wide swath of sagebrush country in the intermountain West that supports cattle ranching ...

While Orangeburg County fire officials say well-trained firefighters are important, new state standards set for interior firefighting could have a chilling impact on attracting new volunteers to an ...