As dangerously hot air bakes parts of the Southwest, forecasters are flagging elevated odds of significant wildland fire activity.

Crews have gained 100% containment on the Hazen Fire just south of Buckeye, authorities said.

Riverbank-choking thickets of tamarisks have long created a bristly nuisance and an environmental scourge in central Arizona and much of the arid West. This wildfire season, the brushy trees ...

Some Arizona residents have been ordered to evacuate their homes as a wildfire continues to burn.

While the Phoenix area was expected to cool off over the weekend, the Tucson area faced a fire weather watch for Sunday, April 12. Unprecedented drought, combined with increasingly high temperatures ...

Dry conditions and the influence of climate change have set up Arizona and the Southwest for a "rough" wildfire season. Forests are already dry and also suffering from a pine beetle invasion, which ...

Invasive tamarisk trees, also known as salt cedars, have fueled several recent wildfires across central Arizona. Tamarisk is a highly flammable, non-native species that chokes out native vegetation ...