The board voted to change the name and took its request to the county commissioners. When the county agreed, the request was ...

Usually, renaming a place starts locally. The people in the state or county propose a name change and gather support. The ...

How do place names get made and then changed? There’s a process. But it involves people as well as bureaucracy, so it’s not ...

The Gilman Fire broke out in La Jolla neighborhood today, while a brush fire at the border with Mexico, has engulfed 20 acres. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Firefighters are battling several new brush fires - the Laguna Fire in Ventura County, the Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake and the Sepulveda Fire in Bel Air, along the 405 Freeway.

The early skirmishes over global landmarks are nothing compared to the fights over renaming public projects after President ...

Wind from the ocean pushed the Border 2 fire east Friday and the evacuation area expanded to include Dulzura and other rural ...

As firefighters battle the Hughes fire, the Border 2 blaze rages in San Diego near the U.S.-Mexico border, prompting a fresh wave of evacuation orders ...

Mapmakers and teachers are re-thinking what to call the gulf of water between Mexico, the United States and Cuba ...

Fast-moving brush fire has scorched 800 acres in the hard-to-access Otay Mountain wilderness, while Donald Trump is expected ...

Enforcement agents may now go into churches under President Donald Trump's executive order that overturned years of U.S.