air quality

When Missoula schools begin their early fall sports practices, air quality will be an important consideration as to whether practices will be held outdoors or indoors.

Air quality is constantly changing in western Montana right now, here's a tool that can help you figure out when to breathe easy.

Missoula County Sheriff's deputies were blanketing the county on Tuesday issuing evacuation warnings to residents near the Lolo Creek Fire, The Rice Ridge Fire and the Sapphire Complex near Rock Creek.

Montana's congressional delegation convinced FEMA administrators to grant wildfire recovery funds for the Lodgepole Complex in eastern Montana.

The valleys of Montana are susceptible to temperature inversions which we're experiencing now. These inversions essentially trap particulates in the valleys, causing poor air quality.

Rain and cooler weather finally allowed aerial mapping of the West Fork Fish Creek fire in Mineral County. Evacuations lifted for the town of Essex.

Over the weekend, Missoula and western Montana residents were wondering if they would ever see the sun again, but Monday morning brought clear skies, and new hope,

Rain and cooler temperatures helped dampen some fires in western Montana, but others continue to burn in central and eastern Montana.

Gallatin County and other Montana counties will be under a fire weather watch tomorrow.

Missoula air quality deemed unhealthy by the Missoula City County Health Department. Sarah Coefield said it could worsen to Very Unhealthy later today.