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After fires near Spokane destroyed hundreds of homes and forced over 65,000 to evacuate, a community is making the best of the road to recovery by coming together to celebrate firefighters' bravery. August 14, 2026

California homeowners could be required to make some changes to their landscaping thanks to a new statewide wildfire-defense policy in what officials described as a first for California — and the nation. Officials could adopt the policy on Aug. 19, and it’d go into effect as soon as next month.

The fires in Spokane, Washington, this summer are the latest reminder that when a wildfire is detected can be just as important as where it starts. A blaze found within minutes can often be contained before it spreads. Wait too long, and a small spark can become a major disaster.

BUNIA, Congo (AP) — Congo’s fast-moving Ebola outbreak has now killed over 2,300 people and become the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record in the Central African nation.

Published Two people have died and an evacuation is under way after two fires broke out within minutes of each other on a Greek island near Athens.

Audio will be available later today. When two different wildfires threatened Dave Kokot's house in Spokane, Wash., earlier this month, he and his family packed up keepsakes as they prepared to leave. Kokot was less worried about the house itself. He knew he'd given it the best possible chance of surviving the flames.

The 2026 wildfire season on the West Coast is shaping up to be an especially bad one: In Oregon, more than 2 million acres have already burned, breaking a record set just a few years ago, in 2024. In neighboring Washington state, suburbs around the city of Spokane recently burned in an increasingly common example of fires reaching urban and suburban areas (as my colleague Caitlin Dewey covered recently). And the consequences are spreading far beyond where the fires are burning, with hazardous smoke from the Pacific Northwest drifting as far away as New England.