The Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation has agreed to receive an advance payment of $30 million from the Government of Canada for a claim regarding the surrender of land in Treaties 22 and 23 ...

Rosie DiManno is a Toronto-based columnist covering sports and current affairs for the Star. Follow her on Twitter: @rdimanno.

For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire is reassessing wildfire risk in Bay Area cities. New fire hazard severity maps show dramatic increases in some areas of Sonoma and Napa counties ...

The updated maps incorporate climate data and modeling and include “moderate,” “high“ and “very high“ hazard designations, whereas before Cal Fire only mapped for “very high” hazard.

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