As 2026 approaches and residents prepare to celebrate with fireworks and other festivities, law enforcement officials are ...

California law allowed a pyrotechnics CEO with a felony to hold state licenses. Devastating Pyrotechnics lacked local permits and imported restricted chemicals. Federal-state regulatory gaps raise ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A fireworks executive and longtime pyrotechnician appears to have operated in the margins dividing local, state and federal agencies charged with permitting and regulating ...

An investigation from the Sacramento Bee revealed how California law “loopholes” allowed for the company which owned the fireworks facility in Esparto — which exploded on July 1 leaving seven dead — ...