Wildfire smoke from Canada has made for bad air quality over parts of the Upper Midwest. Most of Minnesota had “unhealthy” ...

Research shows that long-term exposure to wildfire smoke is linked to lung diseases, heart disease and other conditions. Since these illnesses take decades to develop, scientists think that the health ...

June, the Smoking Tree off Bridge Avenue says it hopes to be the first business to claim one of two retail licenses in ...

Purple firespike is a flowering shrub that boasts dramatic tubular purple flowers ideal for drawing hummingbirds and ...

The death toll from catastrophic flooding in Texas over the July Fourth weekend has surpassed 100. The number of deaths ...

The research on black carbon needs to be updated as more becomes known about the aerosol, and that makes tracking wildfire ...

Wherever you’re located, here’s the latest edition of the biweekly brain teaser. Takers of The Quiz still feeling patriotic ...

Welcome to cwg.live, updated around-the-clock by Capital Weather Gang meteorologists. Happening now: Sun and seasonably warm with un-humid highs in the 80s make for a pleasant Fourth. A Code Orange ...

Smoke Bombs at Disney Park: What’s Going On? Visitors at Disneyland Paris were stunned this morning when blue and purple smoke suddenly clouded the air near Sleeping Beauty Castle. Guests ...

But the threat to water supplies is only just beginning. After the smoke clears, the soil, which was once nestled beneath a canopy of trees and a spongy layer of leaves, is now exposed.

Hydrangeas are a summer glory, the big oak leaf serving up frothy white cones against feathery blooms of a purple smoke tree, the Annabelles a bank of snowballs behind me.