Chopper 6 was overhead as New Jersey Forest Fire crews worked to establish a containment line directly behind several homes in the area.

A Mississippi Gulf Coast restaurant and its co-owner have been sentenced on federal charges of mislabeling inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish.

Crews are battling a multi-acre wildfire in Hainesport, Burlington County, on Monday night, the New Jersey Forest Fire Service said.

NEW YORK (PIX11) — The Jennings Creek wildfire is 90 percent contained, officials announced Monday evening. Despite persisting high wind gusts, crews were able to drop buckets of water on the ridge ...

The New Jersey Forest Fire Service is working to contain the blaze burning in the area of Bancroft Lane and Cove Court.

Firefighters in New York said Sunday that a voluntary evacuation overnight helped them protect more than 160 homes from a ...

On Nov. 15, officers said they received a report that 26-year-old Jessica Edwards, a teacher at Edwards Elementary School, had physically assaulted students at school.

Two more wildfires are burning through wooded areas in New Jersey, officials said on Monday. The first blaze is burning in a forest near Pine Park and the Lakewood Country Club in Lakewood, the New ...

Fire crews in New Jersey are working to contain a wildfire in Burlington County’s Hainesport neighborhood Monday night.

A drought in the northeast United States, combined with high winds, is creating record-breaking numbers of wildfires with dangerous smoke conditions in the New York metropolitan area and beyond.

They lost almost everything when a wildfire destroyed their home in Southern California. But then, in the rubble, they found an item they cherished most: their wedding album. NBC News' Liz Kreutz ...