RIFLE – The cause of Sunday’s 3-acre Fravert Reservoir brush fire has been determined to have been an exploding rifle target, according to Colorado River Fire Rescue authorities. A responsible party ...

DENVER – The U.S. Forest Service announced a ban on exploding targets Monday, citing them as a major cause of wildfires. Shooters who use exploding targets have ignited 16 wildfires since last year, ...

The Bureau of Land Management is proposing prohibiting the use of exploding targets on land it manages in Colorado because of the wildfire threat they pose. The prohibition is one of a number of ...

DENVER, Aug 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Forest Service banned the use of exploding shooting targets on drought-parched national forests and grasslands in five states on Monday, after authorities blamed the ...

WATCH: Portland police remove car from Willamette River in crash that killed 3 teens Portland police will remove the car that went into the Willamette River earlier this month. Portland Art Museum and ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) – Fire restrictions, including fireworks bans, went into effect Tuesday for all Bureau of Land Management public lands throughout Oregon and Washington. The BLM encourages all ...

BRISTOL — Police are continuing to investigate the circumstances surrounding a Saturday night gathering that involved the use of exploding rifle targets. The phone lines for Lakes Region police ...

JEFFERSON - Neighbors concerned about exploding targets last month may have some recourse through a town ordinance, according to an ATF (Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms) agent who explained how a ...

Two Pennsylvania Game Commission Food and Cover Corps employees were injured on Monday, Oct. 1, while responding to a burning target backstop at a shooting range on State Game Land 183 in Palmyra ...

People, often frightened, are calling 911 to report explosions at all hours of the day and night. Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton says people using exploding targets are to blame. The sheriff says ...

Police in northern Idaho say two target shooters were injured when they attempted to use leftover exploding target material to start a fire. The Coeur d’Alene Press reports that 20-year-old Dylan E.