The media have sounded smoke alarms throughout the Northeast this week, for good reason. We haven’t seen air this bad since the 1960s when heavy (and dirty) fuel oil was the heating medium of choice.

On Thursday, two things happened at once: New York was under an air quality health alert, with emergency managers warning of the dangers of outside air exposure for people with health issues, and ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul is warning New Yorkers that unhealthy air quality conditions are expected to remain into the weekend, but it’s still uncertain how it may affect the July 4 holiday. Speaking ...

Wildfires in Northern California and Oregon have pushed smoke down into the San Francisco Bay Area ahead of Thursday Night ...

ALBANY — New York’s air quality improved Thursday, but unhealthy conditions due to the wildfires in Canada are expected to continue into the weekend, state officials said. Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

The Bay Area’s poor air quality is adding an extra twist to the San Francisco 49ers’ home opener in Santa Clara Thursday ...

Smoke from northwestern California and southwestern Oregon has blown over from the Bay Area. Some relief is expected on ...

Preparing to play a second NFL game in less than a week is difficult enough, but wildfires in Oregon and Northern California ...

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Smoky air from the Canadian wildfires will leave much of upstate with unhealthy air on Monday. In this photograph, the Albany skyline ...

Smoke from the blazes in various parts of the country has been lapping into the U.S. since last month but intensified with a recent spate of fires in Quebec NEW YORK (AP) — Smoke from Canadian ...

Actor Jodie Comer was forced to cut her performance in the one-woman Broadway play “Prima Facie” after only 10 minutes because of the poor air quality in New York City on June 7, multiple news ...