Agencies monitoring wildfires in Alaska have elevated the state to Preparedness Level 5 (PL5) , which is the highest level, as wildfire activity continues across the state.July 6 - 7:45 p.m.In the ...

The map also showed purple for “very unhealthy" across much of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, where the Air Quality Index numbers of 250 and were common, though conditions started ...