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Montreal residents that burn wood for heat must register their stoves and by October 2018, must replace them with newer models or face thousands of dollars in fines. The registration is part of an effort to ban most wood-burnings heaters ...

Starting next fall it will be illegal to install wood-burning heaters and stoves in new homes in at least one major American city: San Francisco. Even wood stoves certified as low emission by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be ...

Hunters, target shooters, and citizens concerned with defending their homes soon will no longer to be able to buy a gun in at least one United States city. The last gun store in San Francisco is preparing to close its ...

All handguns in Los Angeles would have to be kept under lock and key — at all times when not being carried — if a group of city councilmen get their way. Under the proposal, handguns would have to be ...

Letting somebody sleep on your couch can get you evicted from your apartment in San Francisco. Residents of the city by the bay who can barely afford average rents of $3,350 a month are facing fines and eviction for using ...

Radiation from the Japanese Fukushima nuclear power plant may have been detected at a West Coast beach just before Christmas. A YouTube video shows a Geiger counter detecting radiation at Coastside Beach near Half Moon Bay, Calif., just south of ...

The biggest seizure of private property by eminent domain in decades in the United States has started in California. The state is planning to take hundreds of properties — most of them in rural areas and small towns — to ...

California Governor Jerry Brown may have vetoed a statewide ban on so-called assault rifles, but San Francisco officials have enacted a similar version of the bill locally – and the NRA is fighting back. The city has a history of ...

A roaring wood fire in your living room could soon be a thing of the past if a growing movement is successful. More and more communities across North America are moving to ban wood and coal-burning fireplaces in an effort ...