Our ancestors learned to control fire roughly 1.8 million years ago. A lot has changed since then, but the utility of fire ...

The alert, which will remain in effect until midnight, is a direct result of the smoke from an Ocean County, New Jersey, ...

Hot spots, caused by deep, smoldering pocks of embers, have continued popping up in the weeks since the fire started, causing smoke to move in and out of nearby communities. A photo from Friday ...

Gusts will remain fairly elevated into the afternoon and evening, becoming lighter around sunset. Smoke from the Table Rock fire will spread across much of Greenville and Pickens counties.

The ability to carry fire around in your pocket, on the other hand, is a relatively new phenomenon. Matches didn’t hit the scene until the mid-1800s, and the pocket lighter as we know it today ...