Wildfire Smoke

MSU Extension Forestry Scientist and author of the Montana Forestry Minute, Dr. Peter Kolb was the guest on Thursday’s Talk Back Program to answer questions from listeners.

As timely as could possibly have been, Missoula City County Health Department Air Quality Specialist Sarah Coefield was on the KGVO Talk Back show the very day that an Air Quality Alert was announced due to wildfire smoke.

Valley wildfire smoke is still coming from wildfires and controlled burns in Idaho, as well as a fire in extreme western Montana, says the National Weather Service

Once again the familiar aroma of wood smoke is coming through open windows in western Montana. Meteorologist Ryan Leach with the National Weather Service in Missoula explains where the smoke is originating.

Bail set at $100,000 for a Missoula man who fired a weapon inside an Arlee casino after a meth-fueled high speed pursuit by law enforcement.

An elderly woman was killed in a two vehicle collision Thursday afternoon on Highway 93 South between Missoula and Lolo.

When the haze is so thick the mountains to the north are mere silhouettes, the presumption is that western Montana is socked in with wildfire smoke.

No, it’s not a new game show, it’s the question everyone is asking as they wake up and see the bluish haze that masks the beautiful mountains around western Montana

When wildfire smoke begins to affect western Montana, as it is predicted to do this fire season, Air Quality Specialist Sarah Coefield warns of what she calls a 'Devil's Bargain'.

In what is being termed 'a miracle rescue', a five month-old baby was rescued early Sunday morning after a 32 year-old man allegedly buried the child in the woods near Lolo Hot Springs.