Fire department personel at the Germiston Lake. The City of Ekurhuleni’s Fire Department has ramped up its training with advanced water-rescue exercises at Germiston Lake, sharpening its readiness for ...

This story has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP’s journalism bysubscribing. An independent committee examining the causes of Hong Kong’s ...

The board that runs the Universities of Wisconsin voted unanimously Tuesday to fire the system's president, drawing the ire of Republican lawmakers who called it a "partisan hatchet job." Rothman has ...

Jay O. Rothman’s departure brought an end to a four-year stint as leader of the university system following a public struggle for power. By Alan Blinder and Stephanie Saul The board of Wisconsin’s ...

Hong Kong authorities did not conduct a fire risk assessment of a HK$336 million (US$42.9 million) renovation project at Wang Fuk Court before the city’s deadliest blaze in decades engulfed the ...

KARACHI: In a move to strengthen the emergency response system and enhance the operational capacity of the Fire Brigade Department, Mayor Murtaza Wahab has decided to establish new fire stations acros ...

The vote ends a nearly weeklong standoff between the board and UW system President Jay Rothman, who said he had been told to resign or be fired. Rothman has served as president since 2022 under a ...

An employee works with an FP-1 long range drone at a production facility of Fire Point company, April 2, 2026. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters) With governments seeking to defend their skies as the wars in ...

In our Reality Check stories, Herald-Leader journalists dig deeper into questions over facts, consequences and accountability. Read more. Story idea? hlcityregion@herald-leader.com. By late March, the ...

At Valley Christian High School in San Jose, a team of students known as Wildfire Quest is racing against time. They’ve advanced to the semifinals of the prestigious XPRIZE Wildfire competition and ...

Quantum Error is the best modern example I can think of when it comes to a game that attempts to do so much and yet fails at almost all of it. The main exception is ...

"We recognize our history, we acknowledge it, we appreciate it, but we also are learning. We intend on improving our system at all times." THE SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT held a live emergency ...