air quality

With the Magpie Rock Fire burning over 2,000 acres in Sanders County and several other smaller fires burning in the Mission and Flathead areas, smoke is making its way into the Missoula and Bitterroot Valleys.

Early Saturday afternoon, the Missoula City County Health Department announced that the air quality specifically in the Frenchtown valley had been declared to be Unhealthy.

Some wildfire smoke has traveled to the Missoula area, but it is not from any wildfires in Montana.

Missoula's record dry spell ended on Monday after 47 days without any measurable precipitation with .54 inches of rain.

When the haze is so thick the mountains to the north are mere silhouettes, the presumption is that western Montana is socked in with wildfire smoke.

No, it’s not a new game show, it’s the question everyone is asking as they wake up and see the bluish haze that masks the beautiful mountains around western Montana

Smoke seems to be clouding the sky over Missoula today, Tuesday, July 31 and according to National Weather Service Meteorologist Travis Booth, the smoke is coming from far-away wildfires.

When wildfire smoke begins to affect western Montana, as it is predicted to do this fire season, Air Quality Specialist Sarah Coefield warns of what she calls a 'Devil's Bargain'.

In what is being termed 'a miracle rescue', a five month-old baby was rescued early Sunday morning after a 32 year-old man allegedly buried the child in the woods near Lolo Hot Springs.

When it comes to short term particle pollution, Missoula improved a little in 2016, but it is still one of the nation's worst.