What Breathing Hazardous Air Actually Does to Your Body
The AQI only goes to 500, and Northern Minnesota blew past 1,100. Here's what exposure to hazardous air does to your lungs, heart, kids, and pets now, along with the potential long-term risks.
Wildfires
Wildfire Video From Train, NWS Says Snow Our Only Hope
More than 200 wildfires burning across Ontario right now, and the smoke from all of it is settling right over Minnesota.
You Can Smell It Indoors: Wildfire Smoke Turns Northern Minnesota Sky Orange as Air Quality Alerts Continue
Wildfire smoke from Minnesota and Ontario fires has blanketed Duluth and Northern Minnesota, prompting air quality alerts and creating hazy, orange skies across the region.
Flags Lowered for Minnesota Firefighter Killed in Idaho
Governor Tim Walz ordered flags lowered to half staff across Minnesota today to honor a firefighter from Minnesota who died in the line of duty in Idaho.
Firefighter Pilot Shares Videos Of Minnesota Wildfire Water Drops
As wildfires rage in Northern Minnesota, a local hero takes to the skies, battling flames with a helicopter named Boomer. The stakes couldn't be higher.
Three Wildfires Are Raging in Minnesota– Here’s Where and How Much Has Burned
As of Wednesday, May 14, three major wildfires continue to burn uncontained in northeastern Minnesota.
WARNING: Smoke Is On Its Way Back to Minnesota and Wisconsin
Are you smelling smoke? Seeing a haze? That is the smoke from the Canadian wildfires in the air moving through Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
Rochester Area Air Quality Expected to Improve Overnight
A cold front is forecast to switch the winds to the west and push the smoke to the east.
Comparing Wildfire Smoke to Smoking, Minnesotans Impacted by Canada Fires
How much is this smoke from the Canada wildfires affecting us?
Warning: Unhealthy Haze Returning To Minnesota This Week
Just when the nice, warmer spring weather is finally here, unhealthy, hazy skies are set to return to Minnesota this week too