In 24 hours, the goats reduced a bed of ivy to a mat of bare vines. They riddled the once-imposing blackberry thicket with tunnels. In less than four days, the invasive plants would be vanquished, ...

Richard Serby and other residents along Mesa Road had front-row seats for the devastating Waldo Canyon fire. He recalls seeing the first plumes of smoke. Then flames above Cedar Heights. He watched ...