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Snowpack in the Sierra Nevada is one-third of what it should be this time of year. Despite that, state and federal water managers say they will take advantage of recent precipitation and send more water to central and southern California.

At last check there were 21 fires burning in the western United States, charring more than 360,000 acres.

The deaths of 19 firefighters near Yarnell, Ariz., this summer have focused a lot of attention on just how bad wildfire has become in the West. And research predicts the situation is going to get worse.

The annual San Diego Bird Festival, now in its 18th year, is called the "Superbowl of Ornithology."

More than 120 leaders are expected to attend the one-day climate summit sponsored by the United Nations. They've been instructed to arrive with "bold ideas" to slow the rise in global temperatures.

The president knows he was once regarded as having limitless promise, and realizes as well how disappointed many of his acolytes have been.

Some residents are returning to find the blaze razed their homes. Parts of San Marcos were evacuated Thursday night; elsewhere, a fire jumped past its containment line.

Army veteran Steve Holcolm won another bronze medal at the Sochi Olympics, this time for four-man bobsled. He is now the first American bobsled pilot to earn three Olympic medals.

Fire officials hope they've seen the worst of a fire that has burned 1,550 acres. They also say they'll get to the bottom of a message in an alert stating, "fire in your pants."

The 27th annual Border Legislators Conference will open by commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Chamizal Treaty, a binational agreement that settled a longtime territorial dispute at the border.