What is the biggest fire to burn in the US? The answer requires a journey through history.

USA TODAY combed through historic records and talked with experts to produce this list of the nation's biggest fires. Read More

How The DEA's New Marijuana Classification Could Affect California's Cannabis Industry

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is considering reclassifying marijuana from a Schedule I ... How could this new classification affect California’s legal cannabis industry? On LAist’s daily ... Read More

DEA’s big marijuana shift could be a lifeline for California’s troubled pot industry

Industry insiders say the move, if approved, could become a lifeline to California’s struggling cannabis industry. “We’ve been anticipating this,” said Meital Manzuri, an attorney whose firm ... Read More

Why it’s not a happy 420 for many California cannabis dispensaries

Lauren Fontein is co-founder and chief compliance officer for The Artist Tree, a chain of dispensaries with eight California locations, including West Hollywood, LA’s Koreatown, Beverly Hills and just ... Read More

US poised to ease restrictions on marijuana in historic shift, but it'll remain controlled substance

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple effects ... Read More

US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, AP sources say

Jack Riley, a former deputy administrator of the DEA, said he had concerns about the proposed change because he thinks marijuana remains a possible “gateway drug," one that may lead to the use of ... Read More

Justice Department to reclassify marijuana as less dangerous drug, sources say

The plan would recognize the medical use of cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs. Read More

Justice Department will move to reclassify marijuana in a historic shift, sources say

The plan would recognize the medical use cannabis and acknowledge it has less potential for abuse than some of the nation’s most dangerous drugs. Read More

Biden's historic marijuana shift is his latest election year move for young voters

Facing softening support from a left-leaning voting group that will be crucial to his reelection hopes in November, President Joe Biden has made a number of election year moves intended to appeal in ... Read More

Pennington County Sheriff's Office gets a new look

Every new patrol fleet vehicle acquired in 2024 has been branded with a more modern, affordable design ... updated striping, PCSO said in a news release. The new artwork was designed by deputies and ... Read More

Jurors in Trump hush money trial hear recording of pivotal call: ‘What do we got to pay for this?’

Though the recording surfaced years ago, it is perhaps the most colorful piece of ... argument that the case is about interference in the 2016 election rather than simply sex and money. Manhattan ... Read More

Ahead of visit to Israel, US's Blinken presses Hamas to accept new proposal for Gaza cease-fire

The United States stepped up pressure for a cease-fire deal in Gaza on Monday as the secretary of state said a new proposal was put to Hamas, whose officials were in Cairo talking to Egyptian ... Read More