The alert from the state Department of Environmental Conservation, which is in effect from 10 a.m. to midnight, includes the Capital Region, Adirondacks, Hudson Valley, New York City and

Scattered storms are back for Sunday afternoon, primarily between 1 and 7 p.m. Any activity eyeing the tri-state through the afternoon and evening could bring severe storms, damaging winds and flash flooding.

If you’re in eastern Pennsylvania or New Jersey and noticed a haze in the sky Sunday morning, you weren’t imagining things. Due to smoke from Canadian wildfires, the air quality index over much of the region was in the “orange” range,

The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for Rhode Island and other parts of Southern New England.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Pennsylvania’s request to designate Liberty-Clairton as a maintenance area, marking a significant achievement in air quality improvement.

Newly deployed sensors will fill in significant gaps in the air quality monitoring network in the Pajaro Valley region. In an area home to many people who work outside in agricultural jobs, the initiative aims to empower community decision-making for those most affected by pollutants like wildfire smoke.

An air quality alert due to wildfire smoke from Canada has been expanded to include the Twin Cities metro and much of northern, central and southwestern Minnesota until Friday night.