Fire crews south of Ashburton have been battling a large rural fire burning through around 14,000 hay bales since late on Wednesday night. Fire and Emergency first received a 111 call to the blaze in ...

Crews from Ashburton, Bovey Tracey, Buckfastleigh and Torquay appear to be on East Street in the town centre, attending "reports of smoke from a property". It's not yet known what has caused the ...

Approximately 14,000 hay bales have caught alight in Ashburton in what Fire and Emergency are calling a “long duration event”. Smoke from the fire is blowing over State Highway 1. Fire and ...

A recent outbreak of wildfires in western Canada is again sending a plume of unhealthy smoke into the United States. Air quality alerts were in effect Saturday for at least eight states across the ...