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Much of the Northeast U.S. is blanketed in a murky haze of wildfire smoke. For most people breathing this air is unpleasant, for others it can be life-threatening. There are ways to reduce the risk.

The air quality is plummeting in many parts of North America as the Canadian wildfires continue to burn. We find out how other cities around the world deal with the challenge of living with toxic air.

Some of the worst air quality was recorded in the Great Lakes region and in Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and the Washington, D.C., metro area.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires continues to blanket much of the Northeast. Scientists at a mountain research station in New York have been watching the crisis unfold.

Dan Stec, a Republican from New York's 45th District, says the Senate session ended with a “flurry of bad bills.”

Officials in the village of Lake Placid and the Town of North Elba are planning to hire an economic development director.

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Members of Sigur Rós found their way back together slowly, but the Icelandic group's singer says that when they started playing it felt like nothing had changed.

Weather patterns will bring the smoke from the fires back over the state, beginning in Western and Central New York on Wednesday, and drifting into Eastern New York and the downstate region by Thursday.

State officials are again warning that unhealthy, smoky air from multiple wildfires burning in Canada will drift over New York this week.