A convicted child molester allegedly triggered one of the rarest severe weather phenomena in the world. Authorities in Butte County, California booked 42-year-old Ronnie Stout on Thursday morning on suspicion of causing a fire that would consume over 350,000 acres and spawn a fire tornado. Stout is believed to have

2024’s fire season is already underway.  A wildfire roughly sixty miles east of the city near Tracy, has burned about twenty square miles of grassland. The fire consumed homes and vehicles as it approached Tracy, although no lives have been lost as of Sunday. Ample warning gave residents sufficient time

As 2024 winds down, we’re reflecting on another incredible year of sharing the stories, art, culture, and nightlife that make the Bay Area so unique. BrokeAssStuart.com wouldn’t be what it is without you—our community of readers, supporters, and believers in independent media. This year, instead of asking you to join Patreon

2020 started with the impeachment of Donald Trump, the first attempted presidential ousting since Clinton twenty-two years prior. A volcano in the Philippines erupted, killing thirty-nine and leaving many without homes. LA Lakers player Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna Maria-Onore died in a helicopter crash. A novel SARS virus

By Alastair Bland If rotated wisely, sheep and cattle can graze away the fuel of deadly wildfires in the American West The excited bleating of sheep crescendos as farmer Sarah Keiser approaches. “Hi babies,” she says as she steps over a deactivated electric fence and greets the eager flock. It

We now live in a state which has a high risk of fires for nearly half the year (or more). I got curious and ended up sitting down to talk with a California Forest Service Firefighter who has worked all over Idaho, California, and pretty much all of the western

We’re watching in helpless horror as the Tahoe Basin is enveloped with wildfires. This leads us to forget that there are currently 18 wildfires burning across California, including the Dixie Fire — which has been burning for more than a month — and is still not even halfway contained. Don't

We regret to inform you that northern California’s still-raging Dixie Fire is now the second largest wildfire in California history, according to NPR. Nearly half a million acres have burned in this wildfire alone, and the best ways to help or chip in to these affected communities is by giving

Arrowhead bottled water is not a company in and of itself. Arrowhead bottled water is one product from Nestlé, the world’s largest multinational food and drink processing conglomerate. And Nestlé is making this year’s California drought and fire season a hell of a lot worse by using 25 times the