nightfall

Come nightfall, the eerie silence is often pierced by the woeful bleat of a wandering burro.

By nightfall, the damage is done: another collapse in the dirt, another family handed a death certificate instead of a paycheck.

Our colleague, Abu Ahmed, initially travelled with the migrants, but - for his own safety - we had agreed he would slip away from the group before nightfall, and before they got close to the beaches.

A vegetation fire ignited in the Santa Rosa Mountains in Riverside County on Monday afternoon, burning 1,200 acres by nightfall and prompting evacuation orders in nearby rural communities.

Four helicopters carried out water drops until nightfall.