Man charged with arson for cabin fire allegedly tried to put it out with beer
A man has been charged with first-degree arson after allegedly lighting a cabin owned by the Boy Scouts of America on fire in September.
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A man has been charged with first-degree arson after allegedly lighting a cabin owned by the Boy Scouts of America on fire in September.
A motel in Taylors Falls is "uninhabitable" after a fire on Friday morning, but no one was injured, officials said.
No injuries were reported in Wednesday's fire and officials say the structure is a total loss.
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the swing state's nonpartisan top elections official can remain in her post despite not being reappointed and confirmed by the state Senate.
A judge sentenced a 63-year-old man to more than four years in prison for setting a series of fires in Minneapolis' Uptown neighborhood last summer.
Minneapolis fire crews pulled a woman and her cat to safety this morning.
A man killed in a 1986 boxcar fire in Minneapolis has been identified with the help of a nonprofit dedicated to solving crimes and cold cases.
A 33-year-old Minneapolis man faces felony charges after he allegedly set fire to a tent with a victim in a wheelchair inside.
A woman is accused of intentionally setting a downtown Minneapolis apartment on fire last August, killing two people and displacing dozens.
A 35-year-old woman is accused of intentionally setting a downtown Minneapolis apartment on fire last August, killing two people, according to Hennepin County court documents.
One resident was taken to the hospital for smoke inhalation.
A school bus blaze sent up a huge plume of smoke in downtown Minneapolis. We're waiting for the fire department to answer our questions about what happened, but our Frankie McLister spoke with Minnesotans who had a front-row seat to the chaos.
It happened Monday morning at Forsman Farms in Howard Lake.
Fire destroyed Winona's Black Horse Bar & Grill early Friday morning, with several fire departments trucking in water to help fight the blaze.
Los Angeles County officials confirm at least 25 people have died, though that number is expected to increase as search teams comb through thousands of charred buildings looking for remains.
Tens of thousands more people in Los Angeles are under threat of evacuation. They're watching high winds which could cause sparks to spread fast. Nearly 90,000 people have already been forced from their homes. WCCO's David Schuman is in Los Angeles County where he found people are not the only ones facing danger, their pets are too.
Millions of people in Southern California are on alert as powerful winds return to the region. The winds on Tuesday have been lighter than expected, but officials are not letting their guard down. The two largest wildfires burning near Los Angeles are still far from contained. The fires have killed at least 24 people and destroyed more than 12,000 buildings.
Worsening wind conditions now threaten the fight against multiple southern California fires.
Monday night's whipping winds could spark more explosive fire growth in Los Angeles. At least two dozen people have died so far in the infernos. Danya Bacchus is in the Pacific Palisades with the latest.
President Joe Biden has declared the situation a disaster and is pushing for more federal funding to help firefighters and those who've lost their homes.
An 80-year-old woman died Monday after suffering severe burns in a fire outside of an assisted living facility in northern Minnesota, police say.
A brush fire exploded in size amid powerful winds in northwest Los Angeles, forcing the evacuation of at least 30,000 residents in the affluent community of Pacific Palisades.
Christopher Daniel has lived in the Phillips neighborhood since 2016 and feels what is being done to help unsheltered and sheltered residents in the Phillips neighborhood is not working.
City crews are working to clean up what's left behind from Monday’s encampment fire in south Minneapolis. Meanwhile, a coalition of neighbors — with and without homes — are letting their voices be heard.
Fires burned through two separate south Minneapolis encampments Monday afternoon.
