To celebrate Nowruz, people light bonfires, set off fireworks and send wish lanterns floating off into the night sky.

Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

Iranians on Tuesday lit bonfires in the streets and jumped over them, carrying on an ancient tradition ahead of the Persian ...

A fire that started in a single-family home on the Big Island Tuesday afternoon was quickly contained by fire crews, with no ...

Bold plans in the city’s agenda will be shared during Mayor Rick Blangiardi’s State of the City Address on March 18.

The summer Aomori Nebuta Festival is a Japanese fire festival that sees around 20 massive lantern floats (known as nebuta) paraded down the streets of Aomori in northern Honshu. These colourful ...

To get one, go to the subscriptions page. FARMINGTON — People from around the region attended the Farmington Fire and Ice Festival on Saturday, March 1, with many seen on Front Street trying to ...

KCON Japan has also introduced new passes and benefits for festival-goers this year, with prices starting from ¥2,900, with other exclusive passes going for up to ¥29,900. Fans can find more ...

FUJIEDA, Shizuoka — A famous tengu parade was staged for the first time in more than a decade in Fujieda, Shizuoka Prefecture. About 30 people dressed as tengu paraded for the Tengu Matsuri festival, ...

Japan has deployed more than 2000 firefighters to battle the country's biggest forest fire in three decades with thousands of residents forced to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city.

according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency A wildfire continues to rage in a mountainous area in Ofunato, Japan Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...