Because heating related fires account for 36 percent of all home fires in rural areas each year, the Pine Bluff Fire and Emergency Services Department is offering some tips to prevent these type of ...

As evening temperatures in our area begin to descend, now is the perfect time to get your wood-burning stove in good working order. The Environmental Protection Agency provides the following guidance: ...

Butte County”s clean air experts recently scraped together $20,000 for a program to help pay residents using wood heat to buy cleaner-burning stoves. They knew that such change-out programs have ...

The Feather River Air Quality Management District announced on Wednesday that it will be an administrator of the Woodsmoke Reduction Program for Yuba and Sutter counties in an effort to replace wood ...

Helpful hints from professionals among our readers are a blessing. For a reader with a wood stove whose heat vents smell of smoke when the stove isn’t in operation, Glen J. Fisher of National Property ...

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If Lisa Jackson runs the federal environmental agency the way she's run the state agency, then a whole lot of Americans are going to face some unpleasant surprises. Ask Nick Scamuffa. Or Mandy Drummey ...

Butte County’s clean air experts recently scraped together $20,000 for a program to help pay residents using wood heat to buy cleaner-burning stoves. They knew that such change-out programs have ...