A resident of Yakima living near the Ahtanum Forest has concerns about forest management and the potential for a wildfire.“I spend a lot of time up here in thes ...

to map spikes in overdoses and raise alerts when a deadly batch of the drug has been found in the area. Wildfires put Yakima Valley residents on edge for most of the summer. The quick-moving Slide ...

Other hotspots are Gardnerville Ranchos, Nevada (3.4 µg/m³), and Yakima, Washington (2.5 µg/m³). But 2023 disrupted this pattern. Smoke from Canadian wildfires engulfed the Midwest and East ...

The release of the maps follows a record-breaking wildfire season last year and firestorms in 2020 that killed nine people and destroyed thousands of homes. The state-developed maps — which will ...