The South Coast Air Quality Management District has issued a smoke advisory in Riverside County as the Wolf and Mindy fires ...

Is air quality bad outside enough to wear a mask in Los Angeles? An expert explains 02:07. After several wildfires combined to torch tens of thousands of acres of vegetation in Los Angeles County ...

The hazardous air quality in Los Angeles is largely a result of smoke from the Pacific Palisades fire, intensified by strong Santa Ana winds. The winds, with gusts reaching up to 100 mph, ...

On Wednesday morning, air quality all around Los Angeles reached "hazardous," the worst possible rating for air quality. It means just about everyone could experience problems from breathing the air.

The issue became so widespread that the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks set up an “air quality relief center” at the Alpine Recreation Center in Chinatown.

Los Angeles Air Quality Index map. Extreme fire behavior, including "short and long-range spotting," continues to challenge firefighting efforts, Cal Fire said in an incident update Wednesday.

But air quality can vary on a hyperlocal scale, meaning the network of official sites is "fairly sparse," says Michael Jerrett, an air pollution expert at the University of California, Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Business was brisk at Teddy's Cocina in Pasadena as wildfire evacuees ate lunch and passersby ducked indoors to escape from the brown, smoky air blanketing the city.

Sam Delgado was a Future Perfect fellow writing about labor and food systems, public health, and literacy. The Palisades and Eaton fires in Los Angeles have destroyed over 10,000 structures ...

Air quality in Los Angeles was at "moderate" levels on Thursday morning, as judged by the EPA's Air Quality Index rating system. Moderate air quality is between 51 and 100, or in the yellow band ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Business was brisk at Teddy's Cocina in Pasadena as wildfire evacuees ate lunch and passersby ducked indoors to escape from the brown, smoky air blanketing the city ...