Canada wildfire smoke rolls into MN again, with air quality alerts outside Twin Cities

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency has issued another air quality alert for parts of northern and central Minnesota beginning at 10 p.m. Wednesday and continuing through noon Thursday due to drifting smoke from Canadian wildfires. Much of the same area was under an alert Tuesday. Southern Minnesota, including the Twin Cities, hasn’t been covered by the alerts, but smoke has still filtered into the atmosphere over the region. Poor air quality impacts health and sensitive groups or those with prolonged exposure experience health effects sooner than others. “The smoke will...