Smoke from wildfires burning across the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia sent air quality plummeting Tuesday, Sept. 2, making eastern Washington one of the most polluted regions in the nation.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Windy conditions around the Inland Northwest helped spread more than a dozen wildfires over Labor Day weekend. Hundreds of thousands of acres are still burning on Tuesday, Sept. 15.

An office building at Ice Harbor Dam east of Pasco on the Snake River in Eastern Washington burned down Sunday night, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Corps suspects that embers left ...

Forest managers in the eastern Cascades selectively thin forests to promote wildfire resilience. New research from the University of Washington shows that the same process can also increase seasonal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke from wildfires burning across the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia sent air quality plummeting Tuesday, Sept. 2, ...

Wildfire smoke from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia has severely impacted air quality in eastern Washington. Winds from the east and northeast have largely contained the smoke east of the ...