Thick smoke filled the Puget Sound leading up to the weekend, plunging air quality into the "unhealthy" category in parts of the region late Friday afternoon - and these smoky conditions and cloudy, ...

Many across western Washington noticed hazy skies on Monday afternoon into the evening. The air quality forecast for the region is expected to remain at a healthy level through the week before ...

SEATTLE - Changing wind patterns around the cascades are going to impact the amount of wildfire smoke descending into the Puget Sound region on Tuesday as multiple fires burn in western Washington.

As dozens of wildfires continue to burn across Canada, flames are sending far-reaching plumes of smoke into the sky and unhealthy air to distant places. Some of the more gigantic blazes have been ...

When it comes to Western Washington’s weather, there’s good news and bad news. Wednesday marked the start of a cooling trend, bringing lower temperatures through the end of the week and scattered ...

If you’re in Seattle, don’t let the eerie, orange lighting unsettle you. The air quality remained moderate in much of the Greater Seattle area Thursday, which is nothing to worry about, said National ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) For most of the past decade, forecasters have been able to use satellites to track ...

We now live in the Pyrocene, a proposed new geologic epoch of high wildfire activity brought about by human-caused climate change. The occurrence of extreme fire weather is now roughly double compared ...